Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

A certain recluse I know not who once said that no bonds attached him to this life and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine.

Farmers the world over, in dealing with costs, returns and risks, are calculating economic agents. Within their small, individual, allocative domain, they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are.

Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid... but stay focused.

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win but when you fail all these fingers are pointing.

I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.

All I ever cared about was actors - toughest job in this business.

I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.

In order to grow and to experience, one must leave his comfort zone. Very often this means that you have to do what you are afraid of in order to find what you didn't know you were looking for. This takes a lot of courage.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.

If I wasn't modelling, I guess I would work in fashion as a buyer.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.

No one is fearless. The difference between achievers and everyone else is that they take action despite their fears.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.

When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me.

Reading taught me how to write.

Imagination creates reality.