As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Lying is the new truth.

Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.

Feminism without femininity is a sham.

If England had Fergie, Wenger or Mourinho in charge, they would win the World Cup.

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you with the world. That's what makes it juicy!

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

I don't have any spiritual strategy.

Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities.