Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father. How important it is, then, that one of our fundamental teachings to our children is how to pray.

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

To be, I must endure the pain.

I'm just delighted that this woman I love can be a mum again.

They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.