Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

It is a fact of life that when you are small, people expect little things from you. But when you've done a great thing, people are amazed.

It does not matter when you begin and end the journey. What matters is your willpower to begin and ability to complete the sacred journey.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.

I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

For people to come to you and say, 'Would you like to be a part of our show?' after years of 'Please tell me I'm good enough'... I can't tell you how wonderful it feels.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.