If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.

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.

Oh to be in England Now that April's there.

I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are - which is now

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.

Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

I'm flattered that women think that I'm sexy.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?