The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance the farther there is to go and the more there is to say the less time there is to say it.

The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.

The only depth where I can breathe, and don't need to fight for air, is in your love.

When you loose my Energy, you'll loose it all.Petra HermansOctober 30, 2016

Hey, religious nuts! Please do not grow up. Just go up!

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

One must see God in everyone.

Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.