No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal.
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear. . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.
If we continue to believe as we have always believed, we will continue to act as we have always acted. If we continue to act as we have always acted, we will continue to get what we have always gotten.
The mind aware of itself is a pilot. . . vastly freer than a passenger mind.
A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.
A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse hanging out of his trousers, either, but no one would have actually started a war if he had.
I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.