It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

Like a bird, fly against the wind of opinions to reach your destination.

I blink January’s lashesand gush down December’s cheeks

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.

Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.