One who has no beloved in the country can never love the country.

Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.

In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.

Do not destroy anybody's peace. You will find peace.

Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.

There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief.

We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.

My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.

In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead.

The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine.

The idea of a permanent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, as opposed to an economic presence, is going to create a new wave of hostility toward the United States.

People think of me as a mannequin. All show and no substance.

I wake up in the morning and sometimes I just want to wear a T-shirt and blue jeans and now I have to force myself to do that, because I can't care what people think, you know?

Let me tell you a few things about regret. There is no end to it. Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?

I was able to afford a car that didn't break down every five minutes.

I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.

What love lays bare in me is energy.