Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

Great journey, great joy.

Each soul should know the sacred spirit.

Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Americans are good at making dance music.

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

A church is not a church when the passion for souls is gone.

We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

There's so much beauty in Africa, but it's not endless.