I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.

Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

Stick to your values in all circumstances.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

If you hide behind the things you don’t want to talk about then you’re going to feel insecure in all aspects of your life.

When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.