A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

The world you acquire and partake in is purely driven by the choices taken.

Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

When i play in Las Vegas I play for money, when I play in Miami I play for holidays but when I play in #India I play for Love

The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.

Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.

Set your affection to infinity and your hate to zero!

I am always learning.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.