Everything touches everything.

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.

To be able to stay beside a beloved one is the special privilege of a friend.

Believe in your dream and define yourself endlessly.

Why are some things harder to lose than others? because of love, of course. The more you love something the harder it is to lose.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.

God's plans for you are better than any plans you have for yourself. So don't be afraid of God's will, even if it's different from yours.

I could use some help with an FTA. What's your problem? He's old, and I'll look like a loser if I shoot him.

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

If you face a worthy opponent acknowledge their skills and show them yours.

I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now