It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Life is not measured by its length but by its contents.

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

You must accept that you might fail then if you do your best and still don't win at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space.

There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.

Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.

True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.