Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?

I try to work out twice a week. I don't restrict myself from any food in my diet I think it's all about balance. I'm also very lucky with my genetics and metabolism.

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail.

Tantra won't work unless you've been trapped by spirituality. You have to be trapped by spirituality before you can be liberated from it.

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

This was the kind of dress that changed the world. The kind of dress that started religions.

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.

Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He's done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world.