Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.

I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?

The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

You can listen to the secrets of lifein the silence of night, in the voice of the ocean, in the beating of your heart.Just listen with your soul.

The lintel of more than one collapsed Venetian house on Crete bears the Latin motto ‘The world is nothing but smoke and shadows’.

Create and nurture an environment in your organization where curiosity is encouraged, and creative thinking is rewarded.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.

Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?

If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so?

The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.