It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.

I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them.

A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.

Insanity a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is being proud of the fact that we do it.

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco's office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is - where are these people? I do not have the slightest idea, but I am not interested.

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

If you are able to forget yourself you will know you would not be forgotten

I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.

I think sometimes you can study guys and build them into giants that they are not.

From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

Twins have a special bond. They feel safer with each other than with their peers.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.