Simply read a child’s story that he or she is writing for school, and you will discover some of the inner struggles with which the young person is trying to cope.

A child’s stories are simpler to understand because the language has not been developed to the point of high abstraction. An adult tells stories far more obtuse in nature.

Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.

This chapter is an attempt to share with you some insights about story listening and how to do it.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room.

So little time and so little to do.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.