All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Genius is sorrow's child.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Freedom lies in being bold.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Humility is attentive patience.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.