I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

I may not hate all of the people all of the time, but I hate all of them some of the time, and I hate some of them all of the time.

Why judge when it's only a matter of perception.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Facts are lonely things.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

I'm very happy. I'm doing what I love.

We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.

Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.

I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.