The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

Whoever works knows the grace of labour of life.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

a young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow

For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

Time is a perishable commodity.

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

True leaders are born when you find something to die for

You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.