Democracy today, especially in the English-speaking world, is a political system that specialises in positioning inadequate, unqualified and dubious types in leadership positions.

Focus on how far you have come in liferather than looking at the accomplishments of others.

Go where imagination takes you-- not where others have gone before.

I don´t complain about playing time. My job is to do so well the coach can´t sit me.

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

Think global, act local.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.