"I believe it is very important to learn different fighting styles to make you a flexible fighter."

“What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'”

“My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.”

“On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.”

“We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me.”

“Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.”

“Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.”

Source : "The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science". Book by Edwin Arthur Burtt, 1925.

“What they teach you as history is mythology and true mythology is far from fantasy -- it is our true history. A bulk of our real history can be found in Egyptian and Greek mythology. Yes, myths reveal to us worlds of other dimensions that make up our true reality. History books teach us that the minds of the past operated on the same frequency, dimension, or level of consciousness as we do now. Not true at all.”

“A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.”

Source : "Q&A With Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Melanie Seibert, relevantmagazine.com. April 22, 2004.