They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

If you are good, they say you are weak.

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.

Love is divine and peaceful but hate is devilish and dreadful. So love everyone without judging them, you will be in peace always.

Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.

To take the world into one's arms and act towards it in a soul-filled and soul-strengthening manner is a powerful act of wildish spirit.

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream.