I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion, and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy, or relief to anyone or anything.

The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.

There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind

The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.

I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.

I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.

I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really about where you're putting your energies. That's changing a lot.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.