Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

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.

‎"Those who give up dreams, do injury to their own hearts and cannot possibly enjoy a profound sense of fulfillment in the end.

The one person you'll be spending the rest of your life with is you. Treat yourself with love and respect.

Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.

The Commitment of being happiness as well willingness makes the feasible from Impossible

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

What a benediction is this fragrance of the early morning! The vernal grass fills the whole atmosphere as with a shower of sweetness.

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.

We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.