It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.

There is no teaching to compare with example.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

A boy is naturally full of humor.

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

Love is a poem that keeps on writing itself, sweeping us along.

One of the biggest differences between humans and trees is simply that humans burn trees.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

Every moment is travel - if understood.

The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.

On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.

There’s no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.

Anything we put on screen has gone through massive changes. That's always part of the process.

Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.