Time and I against any two.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Know or listen to those who know.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party.

Good-night good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.