Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process.

What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.

Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans and kill wildlife."

Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.

When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.

Father, help me never to place judgment upon another and then only upon the merit therein.

However much we do to avoid them we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

I can't compete with making promises you can't keep.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

I will never be satisfied, like the Olympics.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.