We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.

It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.

I see too deep and too much.

Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.

That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.

You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.

Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.

The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids.

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.