If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there's some way to do it.
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island. . .
The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil. . .
The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It's then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives. All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate.
I'm not really qualified to install a security system," said Dimitri. "Really? There's something you can't do?" Adrian's voice was so soft that I could barely hear him, and he was sitting right next to me.
In the early morning hours, Hannah read at the table by the dim light of dawn. She leaned in close to the pages, chin resting on her folded arms, eyes racing over the words, like chasing butterflies over the hills, to catch as many as she could before going to work. She wondered at how such tales of magic could be contained by mere paper and ink for her to read again and again.