It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony.

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

I am completely opposed to the British National Party

The world around us   conforms to expectations      we place upon it.

There is no regret in planting a seed of love in someone’s heart.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real... I thought to myself, if I had $1 for every time someone asked me this, I would be very rich.

I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis

We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people of other worlds.

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.

We are always on the side of those who speak last.