Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.

That which you are looking for may be calling you to seek.

What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly.

Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the gods. It comes when you least expect it.

In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.

There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us to get at meaning we can't get to through the front door.

Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.

My spirit life is also the medium in which I live. It's not something that comes and goes. Without one the other wouldn't exist.

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket