Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.

Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure.

If you believe in your sacred self, you can build a strong tower.

There is no future, there is not past, I live this moment as my last, there's only this, forget regret, no other road, no other way, no day but today

I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly when you come out of nowhere - was good for me.

Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

I was aware of my success, but I never stopped trying to get better.

'Dignity of Labour' is a subject to be learnt from Australia!

But I should like to take these things on full gallop, instead of dawdling along gaping at them. I get fearfully tired, and a very little Abbey goes a long way with me.

Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.