Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.

My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you.

Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back with Trainspotting to try and work out which is the best. I can't split them.

You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.

I also really pay attention to whether the script embodies a full female character or if they're just wanting a two-dimensional objectified woman. So I also have that aspect to take care of as well.

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.