I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

Art is about paying attention.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

The life of the spirit is enfold in great literature.

An air of mystery closed around the details of his early life. I didn't pry. He had been through hell and had a right to his secrets.

We must have clean air and water, and beautiful natural foods for everyone, everywhere.

Even if you're going to die, you might as well die pretty.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.

There are babies a span long in hell.

Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them.

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth