In the Sixties, there were no guidebooks to Asia, at least none that suited young shoestring travelers. No one on the hippie highway carried a copy of Fodor's 'Islamic Asia.' The route to spiritual enlightenment wasn't revealed in the pages of the latest Baedeker. Intrepids were on a journey of spontaneity and reinvention.

I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere.

Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

The most cherished and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love.

I'm looking for 100 percent proof that there's a spiritual realm, and I ain't seen nothing in my 43 years of living but humans. So until that day, I'll be waiting.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

To be spiritual means you have cosmic ambitions. You want to know not just the whole creation but the Creator and the source of creation as well. To be material means you have petty ambitions of owning a house - or 10 houses - or a whole apartment building.

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.

There is no labor in which we engage but that there is a spirit telling us, 'Oh, you do not need to do that; it is a waste of time, and you ought to be engaged in something else.'

I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.

Making dance music is a spiritual thing. It's about being completely absorbed by rhythm and vibration, so much so that the petty stuff of life stops mattering.

You've got to play with passion and spirit and I will always roll up my sleeves and give it a good go.

We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.