Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

I believe, given enough time, all of engineering will move to paradigms based on the biological cell.

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

America was founded on the backs of slaves.

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.

I think we've unplugged and become very apathetic to a lot of things that are happening. There's so much going on and we're sort of disconnected.

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

You do not fail in life, you only produce results, and you have the right to learn and grow from any results that you produce.