It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

Paulo Coelho

A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.

Adam Levine

The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Carl Gustav Jung

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Katherine Anne Porter

When something poses as obstacle to you,surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Wilbur Wright

It is a great joy to admire someone without reserve; love which is founded upon admiration oft he mind as well as the body of the chosen person undoubtedly affords the keenest delight.

Andre Maurois

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

E. B. White

For me, London is and always will be home.

Clive Owen

As a kid, you see something that you know in your heart is true. Its such a huge hypocrisy that it makes you think, Well, if this is a truth that I know about thats not officially accepted, at least in this country, then how many other truths are there that are under the surface that need to come out?

Serj Tankian

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

Iain Duncan Smith

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca