Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.

Always push to be creative.

Reprisals are but a sad resource.

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.