I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

I may not have a world of things, I may not have the biggest wings, What I do have is a heart of love, Because I trust the One above

How, when and what you perceive - defines your life!

I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.

Every driven person comes from a mountain of pain they wish to keep hidden.

What do you think you should do if you're attacked by a bear? Play dead? No - that's a lie promoted by the bears.

The thing is, you don't want to overact or be full of yourself.

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

Vanity is often the unseen spur.