While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

To see the beautiful and mystical in the other worlds, one first must see the beauty of one's soul

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

Look behind you in gratitude.Look ahead of you in hope.Look beside you in caution.Look around you in faith.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

A small step in a good direction.

I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.

I'm still making my decision in the next few days on what path I'm going to take. What really makes me excited now is to continue to give back to the sport.