Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

No one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.

If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

There is no democrats or republicans, right or left, red state or blue state. We are all one. And we are all unified against Mexicans.

Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense.