The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.

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.

Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul. Every challenge provides that light - a greater depth of understanding about life and truth.

The time has come for nations to sell their patriotism and buy wisdom.

I always believe things are going to work out.

And everybody’s running around talking about ‘Zionists’ all day. Okay, just keep parroting that over and over again.

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

Occupied people are not unhappy people.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.