Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

If you phone a psychic and she doesn't answer the phone before it rings, hang up.

Movies are great, TV is great.

Every job feels like my first.

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

To believe in what you're doing is not just important. It is everything!