The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.

For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period.

Sweet girl, if I told you everything, life would lose all mystery.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse.

The abundance of fruit comes out of intimacy with the Lord.

Money is not a problem, but unintelligent attachment to it is.

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.