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.

My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.

The things taught in school are not an education but a means to an education.

I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.

The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.

Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.

If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about a person's sexual orientation.

I don't care what anyone says. It's my life, and I can do what I like.

I suck at golf and a variety of other things I go out and do with my friends.

When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations weren't very high. A published book and a few appreciative readers was my idea of heaven.

Behind every adversity is an opportunity. If you lament over the adversity, you will miss the opportunity.

I think Sweden is known for people being a bit more quiet than other cultures, and I guess it's a mixture: shyness and leaving room for other people to talk. Of course, when people get drunk, all of that disappears.

When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.

As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.

By the fall of 2007, my last remaining Iraqi friend in Baghdad had left. Once he was gone, my connection to the country and the war began to thin, even as the terror diminished. I missed the improvement that came with the surge, and so, in my nervous system, I never quite registered it.

Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

I believe in a free market of ideas and not shying away from debate.

I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.

What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

Extraneous violence is totally wrong. 'Robocop' was violence for violence's sake - you don't shoot somebody's arm off.

The support in Britain made a big difference.