Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Some even “peek through” their computer screens to see themselves on FB as others see them, in order to be sure of who they really are. In effect, they have become self-voyeurs!

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

As one of the country's largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward.

I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?

It definitely helps if I can wear a jacket, because I can have a camera in my pocket. When we're on tour or if I go travel somewhere by myself, that's when I take the most photos.

Stand on the gas, my friend. If your right foot doesn't ache, you're obviously doing something wrong.

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly." No, I'm not," said Ani. Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?