What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

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.

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

It’s in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer – what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.

Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.