Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.

The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.

Growth is grace.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

The stars could fall - the moon could crash from the heavens - and Mariko could not care.

The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.

I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the conscience and sense of values we had when we were young.