When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

It seems to me that wherever religion and politics mix in one body, fascist values - and not 'family values' - rear their ugly head.

As much as we've enjoyed it up here, we're also starting to look forward to seeing all the people back on Earth that we miss and love so much.

But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.

You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about.

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you.

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.