I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

Change is such hard work.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

Standing beside you, I took an oathto make your life simpler by complicating mineand what I always thought would happen did:I was lifted up in joy.

Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how to meticulously manage my time.

Over the moon about strong support for the National Health Service - an institution I will defend to my dying day, second only to Everton FC.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.