If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

My name ain't Keith, so could you lease stop Sweatin' me.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.

He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.

Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" "Sure, if I was ever good.

Keep in mind that angels do not belong to any one religion; they go beyond a single religion. The angels represent the Divine energy of God.