wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

At the Summer Exhibition, I didn't really change anything; it's the same exhibition. All I changed is the presentation. I didn't really change the rules.

If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.

When you're young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.

I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.