An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.

I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.

Think about me lightly, think of me, and forget.

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.

He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.