The heart lies to itself because it must.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.

I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed.

A final victory is a succession of small victories

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.

According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.

Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.

Two or three girls go to a club and they've worked out that one player is worth 50,000 (128,000), another's worth 30,000 (77,000). That's the reality.

As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it.

Life is so precious, such a gift, and that you have to live for you.