Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased,

If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.

Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.

As a viewer, I really want to watch author-backed stories, and there is something amazing about thrillers, the way it captivates your imagination.

The fact is some people really love my work, some people not so much, but at the end of the day, I don't want anybody coming out of the movie thinking about me.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.

You shouldn't end a band like Westlife and not be financially secure to some extent, but I wasn't at all - it was the complete opposite. But you look at stuff then, 'Well, what do I have? I don't have money but I have a great marriage, three healthy kids, and I have my voice. I'll just start again.'

I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

I am not a televangelist.

Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

It's really exciting and kind of special, especially having our own band. It's just completely different.

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.

If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and say, 'My positive experience in your product is directly connected and influenced by this brand and that worked great.'

Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology.

Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.

If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

The mind's first step to self awareness must be through the body.

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.