This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.

You put your time where your priority is.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

Every true scientist is a philosopher, but not every philosopher is a scientist.

Leave your past and live for today

Bombs and bullets don't discriminate.

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement convinced that their cause is lost it is only then that cause triumphs.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.

I think technology is spreading, and I think ones experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

I would do anything to be anywhere in the vicinity of Eckhart Tolle.

The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking.