Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.

A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Remember that you are never alone—you are always with yourself.

There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.

Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.

You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

Fuss is the froth of business.