If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.