The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.

Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.

I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.

While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.

When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works.

Essentially the soul of the planet is being controlled by corporations.

Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.

I look him in the eye. "I will always love you.