A child. . . opens and closes like a blossom.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

The accomplishment of your dreams will demand big sacrifice and hard work.

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

Assaile who will, the valiant attends.

Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.

I don't have anyone telling me to change things or giving me unwanted opinions. It's just me and my band making music. It's nice for a change.

A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.