To live is often only to have a choice of several despairs.

All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together.

Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.

a personality devoted uniquely to its own development absorbs other lives.

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

Without imagination nothing is dangerous.

All the goodness beauty and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

If the church doesn’t start fighting corruption, it will keep flourishing in the country

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared

Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.