The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.

Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages.

When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.

Do what makes you happy, think later.

Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.

Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip.

I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

Hope does not disappoint.