She'll let you put her in her place. But she won't stand for anything worse than first.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish others. All other spiritual realisations will naturally follow from this.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.

They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.

The wind is blowing. Adore the wind.

I don't get tied to the music industry where you have to be on social media all day.

The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.