I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience you can change things: countries structures economic models colonial states.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

I got out of autobiography because my story is I was famous it was hard for me I got into therapy. I had trouble with food I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

You know I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures.

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous it just got me into more trouble.

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other particularly my two brothers and myself when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh you were in trouble!

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

When trouble comes it's your family that supports you.

Action and faith enslave thought both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection criticism and doubt.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

And it was a great experience you know to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline focus and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

If you will call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe with a conviction based on experience that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble we know we'll soon be in trouble.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

A friend said to me 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well if that's the truth I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.