Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

The reality however is that in order to make progress in life, we have to embrace discomfort.

It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's your reality.

Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.

Next time when anger comes just watch it. Don't say, I am angry. Say, Anger is there and I am watching it. And see the difference!

I like to get that roll and pitch. I really like to take the car out on the highway for a spin.