Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.
Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to be kind.
Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.
Happiness can come in a single moment. And in a single moment it can go again. But a single moment does not create it. Happiness is created through countless choices made and then made again throughout a lifetime. You are its host as well as its guest. You give it form, shape, individuality, texture, tone. And what it allows you to give can change your world. Happiness can be stillness. But it isn't still. It wraps, enchants, heals, consoles, soothes, delights, calms, inspires and connects. It is on your face and in your body. It is in your life and being.
It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.
Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination
How we feel about our own self, how well or little we know our own self, whether we feel alive inside, largely determine the quality of the time we spend alone, as well as the quality of the relationships we have with other people.
There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.
You know what, I don't really watch a lot of cooking shows, but what's great about them is that it inspires a lot of the younger generation so, you know, with cooking shows and reality shows and the social media, I think it really makes our industry a hotter industry.
In the old days gigging was everything. The whole of life was about gigs. Everything was about waiting for the gig and then doing the gig and going nuts and then afterwards the party and all the stuff that goes with it. And then that party continues through your twenties and thirties. I'm now 51, and it's still very much in my blood, but I'm really hard pushed. . . the gig is the party for me now.