I'm extremely humbled, I'm happy and I'm blessed, because at the end of the day, I'm doing what I love to do.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.

Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow.

I want to live in a world where 'normal' is an insult.

Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.

We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

Oh-ho, so you are a witch. More like a witchling, as you're too small to be a full witch.” (Emmerich)

True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.

I think [Albert Camus] wanted to write something to explain who he was, and how he was different from the age that had been conferred upon him.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

We may surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers.

All over the walls of my room are pictures of Peter Pan. I've read everything that Barrie wrote. I totally identify with Peter Pan, the lost boy from Never Neverland.

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

Whatever's most important to you is your god. If it's not the Rock Christ Jesus, then it's sand!