"Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories."

“What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.”

“I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.”

“I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need to read for one or two hours in the evening, and the quiet, so I don't hang out a lot.”

“Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company”

Source : "Burberry: The Best of British Digital Innovation" by Melanie Hick, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2011.

“In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.”

Source : Christopher Alexander (1975). “The Oregon Experiment”, p.11, Oxford University Press, USA

“I've got 911 on speed dial.”

“Talking about spirituality is like talking about new love - it always sounds kooky to those who aren't experiencing it.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 25, 2012

“Japoneese people take themselves very serious and you can see it by everything they do - it's like a different part of the scale or spectrum in being a human, and it's something we're not used to seeing in America. And then when you see it, you do have the moments of infatuation; you get caught up in it, but there's so much more to it.”