The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.

He says I'm beautiful as a red tomato

Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.

A person who thought he knew everything simply didn’t understand how much there was to know.

People find a way through just about anything.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.

It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening.

With love, give up better for the best and without a rest.

The lessons of past is critical for teachings in present. And experience in the future.

So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

If you're worth over $50m you should have to dress like that guy on the Monopoly box. The super-rich shouldn't get all the benefits of looking like a regular guy.

Love not often, but forever.

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.

I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.

Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.

If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.