I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

Fear is a constant, and faith is a choice. Fear comes from karma, from faith arises dharma.

I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another.

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

The movement of Soul beyond the human senses is such a natural process that one is likely to overlook it in its simplicity.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.