This is Christmas – the season of perpetual hope.

Im afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

The people who present themselves as normal and nice and good are often the scariest monsters in the world.

When you lose someone you love, they never really leave you. They just move into a special place in your heart.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.

People who are considered scary or odd or even monsters are so often the people that just need love and someone to care for them.

The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.

I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.

Live with purpose.

I’m not denying their kindness, ” said the Rani. “But after all kindness isn’t the only virtue.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...

If thou wouldst marry wisely marry thine equal.

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it.

Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

I'm going to quit writing.

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.