... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers

How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Why, Andrew, why would it irritate me? Do you think that being loved by you is something to be ashamed of? I don't.

One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.

Protect your garden. Some come as weeds disguised as flowers.

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy

I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.

Running is not just a sport but a biological necessity.