We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

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.

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

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

For ye suffer fools gladly seeing ye yourselves are wise.

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

I'm only interested in Libya if we keep the oil. If we don't keep the oil, I'm not interested.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

I'm grateful for everything I have. I'm grateful for it all. I'm grateful for love most of all because I have a lot of it in my life.

Gabriel Batistuta. He was a spectacular No 9 - great at finding space, shooting from outside the box, good in the air. He was always a reference for me and I used to watch the way he played.

Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.