The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Christians need to be free in standing for their rights

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

I'm going to slow down a little bit, but I won't stop creating. I can't!

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

I'm drunk when it comes to clothes.

Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.

Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.