Clever women are hard to intimidate.

A lighthouse is kind of like an angel. Most of the people the light helps take it for granted. Until it’s not there.

Love is much like a wild rose beautiful and calm but willing to draw blood in its defense.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.

My favorite project is always the next one.

The good is the greatest rival of the best.

Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.

I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.