At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

The most non-understandable concept of the universe is TIME!

Beauty will attract a man, but more than it will help you to keep him.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

I just want to get the most money I can.

I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective.

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something crawling in their clothes.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.