I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive

You put your time where your priority is.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

I, the infirm, find myself caring for the sorrows and fears of the well.

Greed is the prison of poverty.

If he would see me again, I would die happy. In the meantime, I was merely dying.

There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.

I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

I've never been to China. I only know what the West is telling me about China.

Generosity makes at least two people feel good.

If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU.

And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.