It should not be harder for our daughters to direct than our sons. It should be an equal playing field.

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what your story is about.

We sit for a week and listen to an extraordinary amount of people talk about what they do in the intelligence world. It's pretty overwhelming.

Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see...Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive...

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

You cannot make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

The main thing in a cup tie is to get through.