Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

Serenity of mind brings joy and happiness in life.

It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.

In every role that I do - whether I'm a teacher, actor or mentor - I do it with total dedication and as much honesty as I feel is required because there's no alternative to honesty and hard work.

In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.