Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.

There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.