I am proud to be a vegetarian and I am against those who eat meat. Go green to be fit, that's the best way for me at least.
So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.
If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.
Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.
What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also matters immensely for our personal destiny.
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.
The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self. And that's why, when I put down my instrument, that's when the challenge starts, because to learn how to be that kind of human being at that level that you are when you're playing - that's the key, that's the hard part.