Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

History is more interesting than politics.

The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.

In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.

Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.