Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

Routine kills creative thought.

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

Don't waste dollars counting cents.

Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought his life a breath of God.

There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart.

Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.

He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.

I used my mind, and then eventually the method I used allowed me to master my craft.