It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

There is a vibrational effect in every action, just as there is vibration that rings from every letter in every word.

It is a crucial time to be mindful of our thoughts.

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

I love writing songs where the name is the title.

I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.

A thing that has no value does not exist.

When you think about people, you give them power.

Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness.