The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.

Poetry is the sound of the human animal.

The process of mind is mechanical, and the data of the thoughts and imagination can be changed, by changing the experiences and impressions of life.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

If people let you down.Improve.You don't have to change for their entertainment.

The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener.

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.