Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

We can solve all problems not by finding solutions, but by transcending consciousness to a new level.

I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't know, because I won't ever dare ask that question.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

Come close now,' ordered Fenworth. 'Time for an exit. I think we'll whirl, Kale likes to whirl. Hold hands. Let's stay together, children. I want no one lost.

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.