Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

Why isn’t the word “phonetically” spelled with an “f”?

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

A determined man, a man who believes himself grossly abused, does not listen to reason

After all tomorrow is another day.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was.

An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

The opening and the folding flowers, that laugh to the summer's day.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.