The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilosbut in other respects it is light.There is nothing more animal-likethan a clear conscienceon the third planet of the Sun.

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

I'd trade a hundred pretty faces for one person who's easy to talk to.

And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.

Your single not because you are not good enough for one, it's that you're too good for the wrong one.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.

Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.