It's not just about creativity. It's about the person you're becoming while you're creating.

There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.

You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.

If you want to change the world, make something beautiful.

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

The full glory of the hokey pokey is to put your whole self in.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

For how long are you going to continue making excuses? When have you ever solved anything through excuses?

Seeing's believing - but feeling is God's own truth.

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Most people don't see Hamlet as an old bald guy.

In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.

It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.