You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.

When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

If youth only knew, if age only could.

It is better to leave a child well instructed than to hand over the whole world in the hands of a fool

God has given me a lifeboat and said... 'Moody save all you can

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

Every time you use the word 'healthy, ' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

You have to keep thinking, I can be better.

Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container of espresso and just bang out a lot of words.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.