It was not a life, if lived without love.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is.

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet?

If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.

...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

The least planned part of the journey, however, was the journey itself.

Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.

Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.

People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

A rebel without a clue.