“The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.”

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

A nation has character only when it is free.

If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.

You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

ho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.

Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.

Live constructively and live optimistically.

What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I’ll never be bored of it.

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring.

When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.

We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?