Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Go without the latest iPhone, explore the world and discover...

It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.

We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

The East End of Glasgow is like the Olympics. Lots of foriegners in tracksuits struggling to speak English.

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

I have no idea what's next, I simply don't have a clue.

Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.

Honesty is the greatest aphrodisiac.