What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.

We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.

I'm in love with writing, but sometimes I swear it hates me.

A day with a sage will save you a thousand of study.

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

Maybe you shouldn't be working as a jailer in Guantánamo. Maybe that's why you feel spiritually unhealthy.

I feel religion is basically and essentially a communication between a man and his God and I think it is the most personal thing of all and I don't think it concerns too many people.