"I cannot stress the importance of pausing to take a few deep breaths throughout the day. It's simple and effective."

“Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.”

“I'm going to have cute ***** 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best ***** in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.”

“It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.”

“He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black East River at dusk, dawn, or darkest night, and each haloed light-in a tower or strung along the jeweled and sprawling spider legs of the Brooklyn Bridge's spans-hinted at some meaning, which could be understood only when made audible by music and encoded in lyrics.”

Source : Arthur Phillips (2004). “The Egyptologist: A Novel”, p.515, Random House

“Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.”

Source : Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

“I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”

Source : Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale (1930). “Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England”

“I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.”

“I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of images that if an actor lands heavily on each one, you never pull through to a larger idea. That's a problem for the audience. But I come to playwriting from the visual world - I used to be a painter. I also really love novels and that use of language. But it's tricky to ask that of the theatre.”