Karma means ‘action’. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.

My job is to assist you in finding the answer that is right for you. Not the answer that would be right for me.

The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived from the misfortune of others’? Schadenfreude.

I took the plug out of the chemical bath of lust that my wits were soaking in and waited for it to empty. I smoked a cigarette while I contemplated the return of reason.

Life will go on without you, because in the end it's not about you.

I'm not ashamed to say that I really loved some of the hair metal bands of the '80s.

Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start making my own music.

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

Ally McCoist will always get you a goal, whether he's playing or on the bench.