It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

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.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

Maybe it doesn’t matter how smart you are or aren’t, but how much you are willing to learn.

In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish - that is their strength.

A holocaust of an afternoon.

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

When you fall down, just get up again.

We know the truth of the restored gospel. Are we ready to defend that truth? We need to live it; we need to share it.

I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.