Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Meditation is blossoming of the prefrontal cortex to overcome the momentum of the nature. It is coming out of the loops of memories, patterns, fears, dreams and anger.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.

I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

We comes from God, I from the Devil.