Faith assuages, guides, restores.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

Who will read these poems when the people are gone?

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

May we eat only foods that nourish us and prevent illnes.. May we accept this food for the realization of the way of understanding and love.

It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists -- we have friends instead.

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It's a powerful example of love that really works.