Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner.

Bullies are masters at holding others responsible for their misbehavior. Instead of claiming "the devil made me do it", they argue "You made me do it".

Mistakes are the doorway to discovery.

Mistakes are doorways to discovery.

Anyone who consistently makes you feel bad is not helping you get better.

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

If they can't repeat it, they didn't get it.

People don't want information; they want epiphanies.

It's hard to stay on purpose if we don't know what our purpose is.

One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'

It is all new and all the same. A hundred years. A day. Ten thousand moons. For them, each day indeed is brand new, full of possibility, the unknown: a wonderland.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

In fact, whenever I go and watch a film I don't like to read about them beforehand - I like to go in fresh and get inside the story without knowing what's going to happen.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage.

Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

It is the heart that sees the primordial eternity of every creature.

One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

I grew up performing in theatre.