Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.

A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.

Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.

In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.

I've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences and the future is integration. We all as a people as citizens as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.

Enlarge your windows till you get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!

Men think epilepsy divine merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand why there would be no end to divine things.

Times of crisis of disruption or constructive change are not only predictable but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step uttering a new word is what people fear most.

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.

Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.

'Jane Eyre' must have been something I read six or seven times as an early adolescent. And 'Kristin Lavransdatter,' and 'Lorna Doone' when I was younger. My parents had a pretty rich library, no jackets on any of the books, so no descriptions. You just pulled something off the shelf and started to read it.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.

We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake.

I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.

Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.

Doing something the right way is something I take pride in.