Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!

I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.

And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.

I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.

My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.

There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.

EQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared.

I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really -- or I try to be -- like the glue of the team.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.

Originality is only variation.

One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.

While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.

Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.