There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy.

Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.

I believe we should be championing the work of women. I believe we should be championing the work of people who have been marginalized. That's who I am. How can I not believe in that?

Leave your comfort-zone and begin to chase your dreams.

90% of learning comes through encouragement.

When you are mindful of Spirit and connecting to the breath with an open heart, that is yoga.

Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

Did you take Joyce's engine?' 'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the engine out. So Hal removed the engine.

Get smart, work hard and remain truthful to those who have taught you something to better love and serve your dancing.

Old love, old love, / How can I be true? / Shall I be faithless to myself / Or to you?

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.