Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.

You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have

[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

I wasn't strong when I was young. The puck was maybe too heavy. I guess I tried to move the puck from side to side to keep from getting hit.