Change is neither good nor bad. It creates different situations, and that difference is what we have to understand, embrace and explore as an opportunity.

The present and the future are about sense-making, about what we as humans value.

Any change holds an opportunity.

We need to act and embrace uncertainty as a pool of opportunity.

For basic survival, as for evolution, we have to accept the past as the creator of the present, influence the future, and act in the present.

Too much study leads to worn out,

It seemed to me that boys had a lot more fun. It was a relief. I didn't look at myself from the outside. I just lived inside my skin, looking out.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself.