I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt?it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere.

Islam teaches that one can only find peace in one's life by submitting to Almighty God (Allah) in heart, soul and deed.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

If every company becomes a technology company, business models and transitions are going to occur. From a CEO's perspective, this is going to be the biggest technology transition of all times.

If there is to be a competition, there must be some basis for resolving it. It is also clear that the competition should be experienced based.

So few grown women like their lives.

I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.

Love is hope. Hope is nectar.

However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.