In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

Who is preaching the living word today?

Truth hides behind the curtain of illusion. We often get lost in illusion and forget to find the truth.

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.

...and time becomes a forgotten detail.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.