Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her

Those tingles she’d felt in her abdomen spread lower. Her body recognised her lover’s voice, wanted him.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

Where would fashion be without literature?

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.

Oh, the weather outside is weather.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.