Listening. Nice idea but difficult to do with constant road and air traffic all around all the time. Please consider getting around by quieter means. Feet, bicycle, horse, it's up to you

I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?

I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow.

The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.

One who conquers fear conquers his greatest enemy.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.

And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.