The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade. They don't have any compliance, they don't have any enforcement.

The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.

You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

I am not very good at reflecting. I am a complete perfectionist and always thinking to the next thing!

Not every corporation is a great bunch of people. Like in any group of people, you're gonna have bad apples, bad actors here and there.