I’m very shy, I feel very awkward.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods

Even when in the midst of trials and tribulations, never take your mental sight off from the precious prize that lies ahead. You were born to win, and the seeds of greatness are in you.

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it. [Ger., Wie aus Duft und Glanz gemischt Du mich schufst, dir dank ich's heut.]

Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift.

There is no excellence in archery without great labour.

I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve!

I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.

Royalty is a fine burial shroud.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.