I am fussy about my diet and straining my voice. I know sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works but each one launches another. Every constraint even dullness frees up a new design.

When you think back to your first kiss your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles causing you to bump into people not going your way.

The main business of religions is to purify control and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement increased physical exercise better diet and restraint from eating.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

One must learn if one is to see the beauty in Japan to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Without freedom no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others.

When anger rushes unrestrained to action like a hot steed it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Anger if not restrained is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.