The acquiring of intelligence doesn't require an institution if you got the heart to seek knowledge, and the balls to use it as wisely as those who came before you.

When a heart has set a course, let it navigate the laughter in failure and generosity in overcoming crisis. Love weaves lives and distills.

Practice form, recognize forms, hone your natural gift, and let everything you experience teach you to never be a comparison. This is how art lasts, by pulling form first from the past.

Even over the sound of a thousand voices...I still can hear my own, only after I listened to hers.

Judgments border on figurative cliffs that my pinky finger nudges to the floor of the infinite.

I can resist everything but love.

No new venture occurs without mistakes. Dare to learn and grow through your mistakes--this is how mastery occurs!

Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.

When thou doest alms let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

Truth is but approved facts.

In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions.

It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.