Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

His mama beat him with an ugly stick so hard, it gone straight on till his soul.

The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

I think ['March'] is not just for the Black Lives Matter movement. It's for everyone. We all have to understand what happened then, so we can understand what's happening now.

The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.

I want to get into movies, not just TV series.

My family was always present when I needed them and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than me.

Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.