They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

~beautiful soul weeps deep~

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.

Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.

I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.

I do not fear invisible worlds.

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

Being grateful for what you have is the key to peace and happiness.

Battles for truth are fought all alone but at the end its a victory for many.

Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

I am a writer of fragments.

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me.

Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I’ve ever grasped how much pain she’s really in.

Sometimes discipline, which means "to teach," is confused with criticism.