There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

You've got to be in it to win it

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching.

I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

I don't look for people who have achieved great things; I look for people who will achieve great things.