Part of the problem with positive thinking, and many related approaches to happiness, is exactly this desire to reduce big questions to one-size-fits-all self-help tricks or ten point plans.

...no matter how much success you may experience in life, your eventual story - no offence intended - will be one of failure. Your bodily organs will fail, and you'll die.

Your attitude is the one thing in this world you have complete control over. You have full command. As empowering as that truth can be, there are some days we let down and give in to a bad attitude.

We are all fit for better things than we ever do

You can never learn anything that you did not already know

When I was five, all I wanted to be was a superstar. Not even lying to you. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I wanted to be famous.

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.

Nature will not be admired by proxy.