God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret.

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals.

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, if you're going to San Francisco, you're gonna meet some gentle people there.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.