Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Follow your own weird.

With every moment of heart ache, I get a little closer to 'Acceptance' somehow, Denying to expect what's best, But to approve it's the best for now!

Every loving word and action create a far reaching ripple effect - like the waves of the ocean.

Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.

Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.