Often my very first flash of colour recognition, before it has been processed by the rest of the information in my brain, is the right one.

Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is.

There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression.

I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

Lifestyle is not an amount; it's a practice.

I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.