For a wise man, a new life begins every day.

Be busy. It is the cheapest medicine on the Earth - and one of the most effective.

Critisize - the right way to make enemies.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

No tomorrow. The day of man's salvation is today.

A strong desire to learn something is already 50% of success.

Fear does not exist anywhere else except in your mind.

A smile is worth nothing, but it is valued dearly...

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village.

Birth isnt something we suffer but something we actively do and exult in.

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

Motherhood has made me a much better person. I see everything from a new perspective - with a sense of wonderment.

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.

I had a respected SF writer call me 'girlie' and demand that I get him a coffee, before the panel we were on together.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

I have become my own father.

If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.

I think best friends are the ones who have been through what youve been through. They understand where youre coming from and where youre going. Its always a challenge to stick by a friend whos making choices we disagree with and are sometimes even dangerous but its at these times that our friends need us most.

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.

Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what's unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization.

When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.