Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable.

Life is really amazing if we know how to fill our hearts with the beauty of life.

In this century, we are about to enter interplanetary civilization.In order to survive, we need to go beyond neoclassical economics definition.We define it as interplanomics.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

I would love this place to be my garden. (on Arsenal's old stadium)

Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.