We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal is not a criminal himself.

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

Smiles, rainbows and a grain of rice.I could survive on that!

Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they don't believe they can take progressive steps with those dreams.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.

Well, I was always... I used to get 100% in physics and chemistry and mathematics (well, maybe a couple of points off in mathematics), and that was in high school.

Being a lad is what I'm about. I can tell you who isn't a lad - anyone from Blur.

I want to be in control of my own destiny.

I'm a boy who appreciates a good body, regardless of the make.

Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you've got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down.