It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.

Reality, like beauty, is in relationship and there only.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

When you confront, you get goals faster.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

I shall see you on Blackfriars Bridge, Tessa.

So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it's easy to say, 'Ah, I'll workout tomorrow.' But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule.

I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it

I did The Frank Skinner Show, and they gave me a little jukebox-shaped CD player, which looks nice in the kitchen.

[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.