Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit.

Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.

When you get older, you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.

As long as you can start you are all right. The juice will come.

A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!

I love getting paid to ride a horse.

God forbid that women have fantasies.

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.