We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it but when they do.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

I had learnt Kathak for six years from the age of eight and did a foundation course from Kathak Kendra in Delhi. I was not fond of classical dance, but today, I'm glad my mom made me do it.

I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.

The kids have all seen it on DVD or videotape.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

If a man asks me for my loyalty...I will give him my honesty. If a man asks me for my honesty...I will give him my loyalty!

When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding myself as a writer was a bad move. The practical difference the money has made is that I can support myself by fiction. That is what I have been trying to do throughout my life.

One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.

The more you put in your body, the more you have to regulate it with insulin. So later kickoffs, you're talking about breakfast, lunch and a pregame meal, so that's more food you've got to be aware of and what you put in your body. A noon game, light breakfast, a little fruit and some insulin, and I'm good to go.

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.

Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world.

War dehumanizes everyone.

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender.

I'm trying to get Americans to see that we're all pretty much the same. I believe it; I was taught God doesn't have a color. I want to better the planet a little bit.