Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.

A dear friend of mine once told me that the only way around is through. I now live by this.

I think a good director is a good listener.

It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

The most staunchly determined are but quitters of the right things.