As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.

we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.

the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

...you can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ...

Faith is necessary to victory.

Family is just accident. . . . They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family they just are.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

For me, I've gotten better at that since I've gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

I think meditation is great, I really believe that at some point you need to just sit with a cup of tea in a café and just stare at the sky and be grateful.

I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.

My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.