Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

Fall in love with life. We are here on earth for a while.

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.

I'm blind without my glasses.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

My life wasn’t how I planned it would be. It wasn’t even close. It was a thousand times better.

Acting is easier than skating in ia way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.

The last time I was in Japan as President of Russia was 11 years ago, if memory serves. I later visited in my capacity as Prime Minister.