Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

Develop your legitimate strangeness.

How can we live without the unknown before us?

What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

Success is not simply about intelligence and ambition. The time invested, the quality of preparation, and the effort applied are essential to excellence or mastery.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

What we touch with our fingers is false. What we feel through our perceptions is real. What we see through our eyes is an illusion, but what we see through our heart is real.

You don't have to explain something you never said.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.

Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.

Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.