Darwin believed in intellectual progress, but he believed that it would come smoothly and harmoniously and happily and it would eventually cover the whole world.

Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? I don’t think so.

Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.

The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.

If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?

Its not my job to feed your kids

The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and downright heavy, is a feat worthy of deep respect.

Suddenly, the world is realizing that gold is still a safe haven asset. We've seen pretty substantial losses in equity markets. I think this is genuine safe-haven buying.

I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper.

We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped a hand across.

Hope distracts you from pain - it's pain with red lipstick on to seduce you.

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

Sometimes, well, all the time, I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff, and then maybe I think of it like five days later.

People fail forward to success.

The softest thing I've ever heard are the wind chimes in my backyard. They are soft and cool and mellow.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.

Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it's right or wrong.

If you're religious or not, the world and society lacks as much of community spirit as it had.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.