To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

A thick, intense fog was rolling in from the ocean, which created long, strange shadows to form like creatures of their own kind.

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.

To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

He knows that he must act, but he must allow room for the Universe to act too.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots

I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.