The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes.

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'.

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

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

Children see things very well sometimes-and idealists even better.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on.

I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star!