The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as we seek to find a proper balance between impulse and discretion.

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.

When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.

You speak as if I actually have a soul. As if mine wasn’t ripped from me by lies and betrayal.

We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

Everything I've done in my life has been by instinct. I never had any doubt I could do anything... I always knew I was going to be a writer.

I play piano and write better than I can sing.

Are — you — insane?” said Hermione in a hushed voice. 'I don't think so,' said Harry, shrugging.

Life is not outside of you. You are life.

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.