I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goal

An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

Your success doesn't depend on anybody else but you.

In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to be among the very best.

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?