It is possible to escape the complexities, challenges and pace of modern life. All we have to do is close our eyes and picture a quiet world where time moves slowly.

Study the nature around you, but also within you.

The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.

Have courage to go your own way and fulfil the dreams that are unique and important to you.

People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one’s own terms.

I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.

Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.

Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.

Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I'm not likely to forget someone slapping my butt with a big piece of wood.

I might be crazy, but at least I'm not insane.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

I think women love to read love stories.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

We are individuals. There's free will. There's timing. We can make the same things in totally different ways.

Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.

I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think... They seek peace, encounter.