Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'

I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.'

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went as an artist. I was increasing my skill set and exploring storytelling through painting.

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time.

I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.

Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

Not yet, but I do wanna work with Leona Lewis. I love her, she's so sweet! I think she's working on her album as well so I'd love to do a nice powerful female duet with her. I think our voices would blend really well. There's a couple of other people I'd love to work with - like Fergie, Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys.

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.

The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside.

I loved Ray from 'The Princess and the Frog.' He was my guy. There was no Ray before me, so there's a level of satisfaction there.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

Markets that don't work we're going to step away from.