Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Look― shoot all you want. With a camera you can barely capture a soul at a time. With planned obsolescence, you can terminate everyone's future at once and they'll never know what hit them.

Constant prayer quickly straightens out our thoughts.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

There isn't an injury known to man that Bryan Robson hasn't had.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.

Some say if only my fears and doubts will leave then I will get to work. But instead you should get to work and then your fears and doubts will leave.

It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.