Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.

In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined.

When you allow the spirit to speak through you and empower it with love, you will discover things you didn't know you knew.

There is no end to the things you don’t understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what you accept.

Believing the phenomenon of karma is placing your destiny in the hands of the devil.

I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

Whatever people see - TV in my mind forms people's opinions.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

I think that when you're constructing entertainment; thrillers, horror movies, or anything that's gonna scare, they're all based on what our natural worries are.

Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.