Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.

Get rid of this bunkum about the 'carnal Christian'. Forget it! If you're carnal, you're not saved.

We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.

Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways.