I have an unfounded belief that there is a conspiracy out there creating unsupportable theories.

With our ignorance, they win, we lose.

It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.

We are changing all the time and this never changes.It is not whether we change, it is how much and in what direction we change. These choices are ours can only be made by us

The best thing in life is change. Without change there is no life.

Conscious practice becomes unconscious practice.

Practice is the process of moving conscious action into subconscious and unconscious action.

Nobody can learn for another. Only we can teach ourselves.

We are the sum and synergy of all our experiences.

It is absolutely possible that the impossible is possible.

The "question" is the inoculation against and the antidote for ignorance.

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.

In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears' awesome strength.

Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt

When I'm speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is such a rush.

I love to negotiate things, I do it really well, and all that stuff. But it's possible I won't be able to get along with Putin.

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

I still enjoy the company of most dogs more than that of most people, because dogs are capable of uncomplicated enthusiasm.

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.