We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

There's something about physical labour that helps to chase away any lingering internal demons.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

A mantra is like meeting the Buddha or Bodhisattva himself.

Democrats should be focused on which way we can help the most people in this country, and Republicans should be focused on how to do that in the most fiscally responsible manner possible.

The boundaries of a person's reality often do not change until that person forsakes what he or she feels confident in and then goes blindly with faith.

I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys.