It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it.

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

There is incredible value in being of service to others.

We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.