There's not that many surprises that you get in life.

Give yourself room to make mistakes because you're human. We've got to make mistakes, and allow ourselves to make those mistakes.

Be patient. Always be kind. Stand in the middle of the river. Be prepared. It [success] will all come. Don't be in such a rush.

Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.

Most actors love to get to the point where they're not auditioning.

Out of everything - out of the money and the gift bags - the most important thing to me is just my mother and father being happy.

Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

Creating investment, growing the economy and creating jobs is what this government wants to do.

Attention must be paid’ is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand.

Next to an old-fashioned church social, or possibly a monster bridge party, there is no buzz which can equal the sibilant buzz ofa matinée.

Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.

Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.