I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

Each child is a new being, a potentialprophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light.... Whoare we to decide that it is hopeless (impossible)?

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.

I really do. I don't see it as a kind of elite experience - it's our biggest organ. We need to see a dermatologist and have them really look at our skin and figure out what's going on.

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

Poseidon can come in too! We will eat you both! Seafood!

Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.