life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

The difficulties in life are vital for our personal growth and well-being.

Truly there are different kinds of pain.  But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting relief and no remedy.

I would add entertainment media cheerleader Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Pentagon sycophant in Kuwait City, a representative of the neon press, neon being that colorless, inert gas that lights up on command.

Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.

There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

Success doesn’t always look like what we think it looks like.

So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best!