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I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

It's not surrendering to the Universe, he told me, if all you're doing is sitting around waiting for it to turn out like you hope. —Partial Surrender

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women!

I like hitting people. The best feeling is when you hit so hard, pow! You get a jarring headache.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

Being on the toilet stool is the grossest thing there is, to me.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Home is like my detox: it's what keeps me grounded.

The portfolio standard was enacted when I was secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. It created investment, generated jobs, and gave a boost to local economies, all when helping to protect the environment.

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.

Our Pioneers and Trailblazers who dared to make the journey into the unknown have given us the courage to break out of our comfort zone to dare to be unique, magnificent, phenomenal; and have set ideals to stand for the power of truth.