Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.

If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.

Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that I'd trained them well.

Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

I sleep five or six hours a night, then crash at the weekend. I'm learning to eat properly and exercise. I relax by watching silly sitcoms like 'Scrubs' and 'How I Met Your Mother.'

I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would be good to meet. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world.

The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.

Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.

I am definitely not into the exposed look. I am not one of those people who flashes their stomach or anything like that, because I don't have the confidence.

Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

Mindfulness makes no demands that we ˜change', that life has to be different in any way, but rather works on a basis of acceptance, in a radical sense, of the present moment.