There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is holy.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

Images contaminate us like viruses.

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile:)

Most people think it's normal to have a nameless sorrow at the bottom of your soul.

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.

One of the things I like to do is people's hearts are on their sleeve, whether it's a good or a bad heart.

What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

There's nothing more dangerous than a place that doesn't exist.

Not everyone who sells Christmas trees believes in Santa Claus.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.