I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me. I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.

Separation can make us feel helpless and powerless, like we have no control. To withstand this negative force, we must return to our inner core, and that takes work. That takes time and patience.

Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living

Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.

Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.

When you respond to life, that's positive; when you react to life, that's negative.

Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.

I don't have time to be negative.

Accentuate the positive / Eliminate the negative.