The ear is the avenue to the heart.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

I bear a charmed life.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.