When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.
I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.
To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha. I don't speak of enlightenment.
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.
I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture.
It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.
It’s not exactly that I can’t stay in one place. It’s that if I’m in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room!
It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.
I think especially since going solo it's pretty clear that I'm completely being myself.
Make sure your decision to have a child is based on the need to share your life completely with another little human being and not because of some personal need for validation as a woman.
There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.
If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
One changes from day to day, and. . . after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.
I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.
Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.
I can look back at things I've done and said and worn and be completely humiliated by them, but I can never say it wasn't me. I feel really honored to say that.
What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control
Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.