At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

You know, maybe we don't need enemies.""Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.

I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.

There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.

The world belongs to the articulate.

Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is coming, and when they want cold borscht I know how far can spring be behind?

Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.

I believe in freedom of expression, I don't believe in censorship.

When I was singing, everybody liked me.

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.