I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.

You were born an original work of art. Stay original.

Feelings are not to be suppressed or fixed — they’re to be acknowledged.

It is rudeness of the highest order to hit a family when they are down.

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

People aren't universally heroic.

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

Be who you were born to be - it's what living things do.

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.