Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

I believe adopting free unstructured play, within an appropriate framework, has rich potential in bringing up happy, well-balanced and resilient children.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Annette Bening should've won Oscar for American Beauty. I mean, I know Hilary Swank was there, she was so great too... Annette deserves one. She better win. I'm an Academy voter, and I voted for her.

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

The major key to your better future is you.

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

When faced with the choice, choose happy

The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.