Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

Inner peace gives calmness of soul.

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

I haven't known life to be any happier.

Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.

There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself'