Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.

It’s truly interesting to observe how genetics works in families, and what a huge lottery it is to inherit some of our relatives’ appearance features.

The reason negative emotions burn out so very slowly in us is because we keep igniting them with old, unpleasant memories.

If i get a second chance to live, i'll rise much higher than i ever dream

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

Cry for the soul that will not face the body as an equal place.

Faith does not always demand that God explains Himself.

Success is the potential destiny of all created things

Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.