Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

En su habitación del hotel la muerte, desnuda, está delante del espejo. No sabe quién es.

Assim é, mas a vantagem da igreja é que, embora às vezes o não pareça, ao gerir o que está no alto, governa o que está em baixo.

If you can't accept losing you can't win.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

All health begins with how we perceive ourselves and our bodies.

When you were in love you knew no fear or hatred.

People are much more likely to trust a leader if they know he is compassionate and forgiving of mistakes.

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.

I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.