Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.

The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.

My problems are all behind me!

I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.

Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.