It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.

The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.

I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

...it is far more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will certainly change as the world about you changes.

Happiness is a choice. Happiness does not depend on outward conditions but on inward decisions.

Above and behind them the Dipper turned on its great handle as if to pour night itself out onto the dreaming continent and each of its seven stars gleamed from between the fitful clouds.

Only silence perfects silence.

Chinese don't really believe in markets. They like stability, they like control.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.

Never settle for the path of least resistance

God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.

I want to make someone's life better because I'm here. If you have that attitude it will change your day and change your life.