I’m kind of jealous of the life I’m supposedly leading.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Every old poem is sacred.

I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

When you’re on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

Kourtney has a new therapist and a new bf and I don’t really know which one is this problem

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg…

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole–the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives — you’ll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

I look very much forward to showing my financials, because they are huge.

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.

The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn’t be able to do that.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.