For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

All joy lies in the present moment. The journey of life and prosperity are made of the present moment.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

I had a very crazy aunt and uncle who we traded my brother Webster to for a Siamese cat. It was heaven to live with my aunt and uncle because you got spoiled to death.

The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.