If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Where science is a dignified waltz in three-quarter time, magic is an improvised saxophone solo: all gut checks and synchronicities.

Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity.

And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy!

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

Beer makes people deaf.

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.