Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

The thing to remember about Phuket is it's very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.

People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.

to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go

Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.

I'll probably be popped off by some loony.

Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.

In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.