Change is the only constant.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Be master of your destiny.

I'm very much a family person.

I was shocked that someone I didn’t even know would take the time to pray for me.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.

Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk.