Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

Love without sacrifice is like theft

What I learned on my own I still remember

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.