Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings.

Ben walks in the room and asks, “What were you guys doing?” Nikki says “Nothing” at the same time I say, “Your sister and I were just makin’ out.

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

English people have seen me get through scandals.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

People are essentially red meat. They are.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

I'm Chris Martin with down syndrome