Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.

May my silences become more accurate.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.

When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.

I have gone into the waste lonely places

Only, a lonely heart Can tell What it meansTo be lonely

The ultimate aim of learning knowledge is to gain wisdom.

You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.

I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.

As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.

The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.