Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

You measure success by the humility it takes to see the truth

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

Our whole economy and society is already being changed by the fact that we have increasing unemployment, mass unemployment and that's what we're facing in the future because of increasing automation.

I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...

When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them.

I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.