One of the things that you never realise while you are young is that things do come to an end.

Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

World is full of followers and leaders, and I think that if one can become both and be both, to follow in order to lead, and to lead in order to follow, then I think you're on the right path.

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

I'm totally addicted to Japanese anime, and spend way, way, way too much time watching it.

I was only glad to be saved and never once thought to ask why.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?

Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.