The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

God has sent us with treasure of thoughts, we just need to explore that

You have the power. You have the magic to transform the world

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred.

I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.

I would like to think that we have made much more progress, that we've come much further, to have someone like a Donald Trump to emerge as the nominee of a major political party.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.

Our theology must become biography.