It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

I'm a big fan of new production techniques and new sounds. That's kind of what has been my focus out here; making sure that the songs can stand away from the production, however it's produced.

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights.

To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.

The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

[I like to cook] Shepherd's pie, which is a classic British dish. But my version reflects my Jamaican roots, because I add jerk to it as well.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

I have found my voice again and the art of using it.