He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

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.

We tried to act familiar, which meant we couldn't ask the kind of questions that might have helped us figure each other out and year after year the distance grew.

Topanga: Do I need to know the middle of the story?Corey: Do you want to be proud of her?Topanga: Yes.Corey: Then, no.

Lets be honest, L.A. is not a bad place to live. There are some crazy people there, but I tend to get on with them!

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

I don't take my clothes off in my videos

I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.

I shall be a good politician. Even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else, for that matter.

I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight.

Transparency is the key to good governance & e-governance is the only effective way of transparent governance.

Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.