When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.

Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

Put your faith in what you most believe in.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face.

When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.

In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay

Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months.

Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.

She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do. Kingsley...I can't do this. I'm coming with you.

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

That's not to say I came from the streets or anything - most of the time I was on my grandmother's back porch. I was kept in a constant state of amniotic fluid.