Leo Tolstoy

Enough or not…it will have to do.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget…

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

[on Diana’s Death] I remember just feeling completely numb, disorientated, dizzy.

Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.

It is the mind that makes good or ill. That which makes us happy or sad; rich or poor.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and “unsurrounding” yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

There ain’t no freedom when you’ve got a worrying mind.