There is nothing permanent except change.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck.

Pleasure like a kind of bait is thrown before everything which is really bad and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way.

You create yourself moment to moment. You are not born as a fixed entity, but only as a infinite potentiality.

I wonder if theres such a thing as a spiritual dentist I think my whole personality is full of cavities

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger for food but the real hunger the deep hunger for family for love for belonging.

There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.

When I lived in Paris in the early '80s, I had the occasion to hang out with Prince Albert of Monaco quite a few times.

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

I have lots of brothers and sisters, two of whom are younger than myself, so I rely on my phone, text messaging or e-mailing to stay in the loop and communicate when I'm away for big chunks of time.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

A fighter never knows when its the last bell. He doesnt want to face that.

I am a terrible sleeper.

I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

The strongest thing in the world is a bad habit.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether it be arguing about having a nicer package - because I do believe some people care about that - to trying to always bank on art-versus-the-easy-commerce route; there's always been headbutting involved.