The things white men failed to notice would fill the world they had ruined ten thousand times over.

Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it's managed and doesn't become an addiction.

If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too

Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

I would just think that I would remember modeling for the cover of an album with Tom Waits, who I've always loved.

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

Horizons will not come to you; you must go to the horizons!

If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the extent that they can make a contribution.

Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.

I've gotten incredibly lucky with the people I've gotten to work with. It's made my mind better, and it's made me a better person.