Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.

When you forgive you in no way change the past but you sure do change the future.

There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart.

I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.

You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

I think the deafness affects me more than I realise; I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.

I've been a fan of Dhoni for years. I've seen him play for India for over 10 years.

The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

Bullying is for people who have no confidence at all. So everyone being bullied please remember they are scared of you. You have something they dont and thats what makes them bully you. Dont let their words affect you because they are the ones needing confidence not you.

In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.

I like fat people more then I like thin people things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.

Acting is such a weird job.

Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.

I like to do all kinds of films.

Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.

'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.