Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept pace.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

Falling in love is the most beautiful wonder.

The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.

My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.

What is the best way to go beyond self-interest and obsession with personal demands, needs and disappointments? The answer is: Whatever you do, may it benefit everyone.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.

Your life will become better by making other lives better.