"Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us."

“As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.”

“In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.”

“When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.”

Source : Eknath Easwaran (1991). “Meditation: A Simple Eight-point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals Into Daily Life”, p.91, Nilgiri Press

“We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.”

“I'm such a hater, and will hate on anything.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.”

“The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.”

Source : Leslie Stephen (1873). “Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking”, p.52

“There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. The zoologist now has to start making comparisons. Where else is nudity at a premium.”