Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.

...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.

I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Gideon touched her cheek, lightly, with the tips of his fingers. “Did you know your name means ‘wisdom’? It was very well-given.

If you fall down, get up and walk again. If you can't walk, crawl. If that idea fails, have another one It doesn't happen by accident. It takes a lot of hard work.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

We are not born to survive. Only to live.

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.