Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Every yesterday we lose ourselves so that we can find ourselves in tomorrow.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

God does not pay at the end of every day, but in the end He pays.

I mind my own business. And I don't eat junk food.

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

In management, the first concern of the company is the happiness of people who are connected with it. If the people do not feel happy and cannot be made happy, that company does not deserve to exist.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?