"It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights."

“I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.”

“There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.”

“The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.”

“The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.”

“If I just take an hour yoga class, I will come out differently than I went in.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

“Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists...Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter.”

“The one thing I'm jealous of a signature-artist situation is that if you just do one thing and slight variations on it, you wouldn't have to kill yourself to get a show done. I'm sick of killing myself.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.”

Source : David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Tales from the Afterlives”, p.9, Canongate Books