People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

No one but a fool is always right.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

I’m personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

Debates, I hate.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases… but they don’t know the actual consequence of that.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.