"There's always going to be haters. And the more hate you get, the better you are doing."

“Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.”

“The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass.”

“Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.”

“When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.”

“My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'”

“I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks-it's really my relaxation.”

Source : "Obsessed with Cooking, M.J., and Being a Manny" by Rebecca Guinness, www.vanityfair.com. April 24, 2009.

“The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus ...”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

“A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.”