Live. And live well. Breathe. Breathe in and breathe deeply. Be present. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now.

I do believe that at times God opens some doors and closes others, but our mistake is to confuse an open door for an easy door

Love God, Embrace beauty, Live life to the fullest.

You're very naive and innocent, and don't understand a lot of things yet.

A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt.

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

A family needs a father to anchor it.

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

Every end is the beginning of something else.

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.