I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

One size may fit all, but no footprint is the same. The right path for you may be a few steps to the left.

We are always - always- in choice.

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

No one is perfect, except for Penélope Cruz.

The EU is not going to attack the United States. Supposedly, China or the EU was doing this on the UScan you imagine what the blowout would be?

Probably my biggest challenge is not eating all the food that I want to eat sometimes.

I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.