It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

I can say opportunity is the time, if you have it, you can get anything

Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.

Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

You want to make your own decisions, but you ought to make those decisions with an eternal perspective.

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget.

We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

When you live with beautiful things you stimulate your mind, you enjoy life a little bit more.

With every movie, we will spend a season of prayer just asking God what's on his heart, and we spent about a year, two years, in prayer, trying to figure out the direction for the next film.