There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Prayer is not itself powerful

People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.

My approach never changes from start to start.

Ready mony is a ready Medicine.

Our purpose is to end war and bring resources back to the life-sustaining needs of our community.

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.

I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.

I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that could lead to hospitalization and the young are extremely vulnerable.

The crooning turns to a sunrise singing.