Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream - of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete - lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs.

Vibration is at the heart of nature. Music allows us to feel it.

All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

I grew up with absolutely no religion at all, and it was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I didn't have to unlearn anything.

Writers don’t write about just anybody.

If you stop focusing on all the reasons why you can’t do it, you just may surprise yourself to see what you can do.

We live in a nation of pigs and murderers.

You never get somewhere, without starting from somewhere”.

My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home.

Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.