I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)

Change & transformation. That kind of magic.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture imagine where things can happen in space.

But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.

You know she's going to leave my broken heart behind her...

You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.