When things are bad we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly not only as to the things which I have explained but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

We have three generations at home including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.

I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life so I just make films as I see the world and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.

I speak relatively little except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.