A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

You love meand love me notyour love is an arm of clockjoining hands with mineonly to leave me again

Despite our challenges, hope lies in the reality that our story does not end here.

When I asked for help, no one is there except me. "Helping yourself is a great help you ever get it from anyone".

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.