Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.

I hate the word wholesome.