I don't want to die without scars.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

The things you own end up owning you.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.

In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang

When I am at my limit and hurting, I focus on the moment.

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.