A drop of hope can create an ocean, but a bucket of faith can create an entire world.

Your leadership depends on you. You can only be a great leader when you can lead yourself well first.

I'm proud by not being frustrated, jealous or too confused by remaining creative. It's very easy to give up, and to keep going and sticking to your own ethos is very difficult.

My proudest accomplishment is my daughter Ella. Because she is a great person, great personality. She not really my accomplishment, she is her own, but I had something to do with it.

I'd like to be remembered for music that moves people, that takes them some place else, that means something to them, reminds them of a good time or place, some memory, some positive moment.

Do it yourself. Keep going. Many people have said these things to me many times and both are good pieces of advice. I like getting on with things.

I can't function without coffee and I cannot refuse chocolate. Drink I gave up years ago and don't miss it in the slightest. But I think I'd collapse without coffee.

Be a great writer when you write your life's song.

She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.

The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.

When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds. We did it before dinner at 5 o'clock. Then when dinnertime comes, they've already eaten vegetables.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

I am the fonder of my garden for all the trouble it gives me, and the grudging reward that my unending labours exact.

The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.