When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

To See What Is Right And Not Do It Is A Lack Of Courage.

What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

You can’t do everything, so pick what is important and focus on that relentlessly.

I'm not a girl that will lay in diamonds but I will run through the flowers of the seeds we plant together.

I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

I'm acting with the best actors in the world.

Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.