"Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good."

"It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods."

"Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process."

"It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that a mind at peace can weather any storm."

"It is a quiet truth that fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: i will try once more tomorrow."

"It is a profound truth that the universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws."

"The distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."