American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

True science teaches above all to doubt and to be ignorant.

So much about religion has to do with rigid sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig which my mother took me to see.

Poetry teaches us music metaphor condensation and specificity.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form and that it's timeless that it reaches back.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity perseverance and to turn around three times before lying down.

Aside from what it teaches you there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems like refugees and Jerusalem which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.

Islam teaches tolerance not hatred universal brotherhood not enmity peace and not violence.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols which observe him with familiar glances.

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature as well as the elements.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development and attaches her curse on all inaction.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Cinema is visually powerful it is a complete experience reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Somehow I've been blessed to be able to have the young spirit inside - not feel like every year I get a year older. I feel like every year I get a year younger. I don't wake up in the morning with aches and pains.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities this drives men from their homes this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.