“There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.”

“The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.”

“Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.”

“Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.”

“Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.”

“Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.”

“In an era of globalization, people recognize that they are part of a global society, but they have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to gu...”

“Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.”

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words ...”

“A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded and that no matter how high we go it is from our roots that we draw sustenance. It is...”