Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.

We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps.

The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious.

Somehow human authority is never enough

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.

Protecting our second amendment will make America great again.

Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.

The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.

Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.

Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation.