We have to learn everything we do.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

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

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.

Human life must always be defended from its beginning in the womb and must be recognised as a gift of God that guarantees the future of humanity.

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they are not afraid of losing.

Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.