Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies.

Money's only important when you don't have any.

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

Let your soul be your pilot.

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

I was absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, and the respect for the wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever