Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.
Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
The scientific understanding of some of these [childhood] diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first day deaths that we need a lot more insights so that we can build the tools to solve those problems.
And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly.
There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to fulfillment. He tries falling in love, that doesn't work. He goes to war and searches for military glory, that doesn't work. He does the quiet life of a farmer. He's always active. That's what I loved about him, he's always looking, searching. He's really inquisitive.