The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?

We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.

My ears hear colors and my eyes see sounds.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... of the pain of the Yazidi women

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

I got into music because my Dad used to tell everyone I had the voice of an angel when I was two-years-old.

Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.

Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.