You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

We live in times where the speed of our life is increasing but leading us nowhere.

Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

I've been in relationships where I've felt terribly alone. Just because you're with someone, it doesn't mean you're happy.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.