The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.

Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them.

I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.

I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Don't confuse visibility with credibility.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket

Do you give up?" Shezmu bellowed. "No!" I yelled. "No, we don't give up. We will name you. Just . . . Gosh, you're quite well muscled, arn't you? Do you work out?

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.