Language is the source of misunderstandings.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Sparks are warm while they last.

Sound is the basis vibration of the universe All those little vortices may get sent going the other way. Sound is really very powerful.

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.

Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life.

The other day I got invited to a party, but I stayed home instead. Just me and my pal Johnny Walker and his brothers Black and Red.

Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

I don't even think of going to Europe as going to another country now.

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto.