Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

It's better to have nothing, ' the children were saying.

I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined.

...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.

Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

You have to have an international reference of competition. You have to go beyond your home.

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.

Bodh Gaya is a land of enlightenment. Years ago, what Bodh Gaya got was Siddhartha but what Bodh Gaya gave to the world was Lord Buddha, the epitome of knowledge, peace and compassion.

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Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never knew.