How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.

Make nature your best teacher. With great love, learn from her the lessons of life.

One of the biggest challenge in life is to see things for what they are instead of what you want them to be.

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.

I don't care where Obama goes. He can go wherever he wants.