I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.

It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

I went from really hating my body, to disliking it, to accepting it but not exactly liking it, then accepting it and liking it, and now I love it.

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

Stand by those who stand by you.

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

How much good can you do today? How much love can you give? How much care and kind attention?

The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.