I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

The prophet Zechariah warns that any nation that touches Jerusalem will be cut off.

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.

When in Italy, you should meet Italians.

There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.

Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or India.