For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose

Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.

If you have never missed when investing, you haven't been in there trying.

One reads not for information, but inspiration.

I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.