Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

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.

Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.

As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.

When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls.

For those that say I endanger my child: it's more likely that you will fall while walking on the sidewalk than I will while skating with my daughter.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.