Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.

Stand up straight with your shoulders back.

Make friends with people who want the best for you.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

Pursue what is meaningful not what is expedient.

Tell the truth - or at least, don't lie.

Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal.

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

You are human you will make mistakes and its one of the most beautiful things about being human but you must learn from your mistakes otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

I'd like to go out with friends, but I train twice a day, then I go to school, and at night I go home.

Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant.

I think everything has its own pros and cons.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

It's so hard to pick a 'single.' I always want it to be whatever my favorite tune is, but often the record company and the person whose job it is to take it to radio have different ideas.

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

The public's not stupid.

I have such a lovely life and I just never imagined that I would miscarry a baby.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Tiger watches and hunts; whereas, hyenas wait and wait, for their time, to reach rubbish left by the tiger; similarly, the fools wait, not the wise ones.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.