I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

Deepak Chopra

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

James Thurber

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

Nastassja Kinski

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

Mira Sorvino

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

Johann von Goethe

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Herbert Read

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

Harvey S. Firestone

I am more important than my problems.

Jose Ferrer

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

John Calvin

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

William Wycherley