[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.

Not only is there a right to be happy there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.

I thought Beauty and the Beast were two people, not one.

You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power.

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.

From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.

I went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus."

What I liked about working with Palmbomen and him being a super crate digger and super well known with all this exotic and unfamiliar music to me.