He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

There's never an end for the sea.

Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

If there is a construction or a pathway in the spirit to be made, it is the way of godliness.

Limitless material growth is not sustainable or moral.

Only love can be shared, and the attempt to 'share' an illusion is literally impossible.

Without honor, a knight is no more than a common killer. It is better to die with honor than to live without it.

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

I was a good kid. My parents laid rules out for me, and I followed them.

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.