Motives and purposes are in the brain and heart of man. Consequences are in the world of fact.

The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

Being around all the animals in the film Dr. .Doolittle made me one too.