Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

Can't couldn't do it and could did it all.

A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

Home isn’t really a place. It’s the people who makes it what it is. I have a great home.

For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.

Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.

Curiosity engenders both science and scandal.

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.