To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.

Compassion needs new approach and new outlook with the way you see the world.

Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.

God’s on your side

To love another person is to see the face of God.

I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.

Great leaders inspire us to go places we would never go on our own, and to attempt things we never thought we had in us.

If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you.

Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.