My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset

Dream it. Wish it. Do it.

You learn more from losing than winning.

Be stronger than your excuses.

Sometimes later becomes never. Do it now.

Dream without fear love without limits.

Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy.

Die with memories, not dreams.

There is nothing more fascinating than the fusion between power and mystery in our great, little treasure: the human brain.

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.

Telling someone to be confident in the abstract is not going to make it easier for the unconfident writer to actually get herself or himself to the point of being able to put in the upsetting stuff.

Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

You can't rely on anything. At the end of the day, all you have is yourself.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids.

God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.

The miracle of your being cannot escape itself. Your thoughts blossom into events. Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do.