I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

Night is a world lit by itself.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.

I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

Does he expect the flood to just move out of his way if he asks nicely?

A Chinese proverb: Outside of sky there is sky, outside of people there are people. It is the idea of infinity and also that there will always be someone better than you.

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others.

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

What's the point of cleaning up your act if you don't have an act?

Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.