The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

The concern of a team member is also the concern of the team.

There is no other name that mankind can be saved accept in the name of Jesus Christ, the saviour of the world.

Take everything to the next level and have fun doing it. No limits, no rules!

Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.

For me, as far as skin, I'm a big advocate of facials. And I moisturize. And I read my magazines. I listen to good advice from people who really know, and I try to watch what I eat.

The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.

There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc.

Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness.

An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.