I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen.'

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.