When you look at a person who's different and see Yourself, then you begin to understand who and what God really is.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

Live together as united people in a beautiful peaceful world.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

When I talk about secularism, I'm talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.

People who know my stage act know it's nothing but pushing boundaries.

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.