Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.

He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.