I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life.

The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion - Shavasti

Few celebrate a dog who jumps at people as they approach--but start with the premise that it is we who keep ourselves (and our faces) unbearably far away, and we can come to a mutual understanding.

Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

Interlude with sunshine. Hello monday mein lazy freund.

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus.

Never use tricky or irrelevant headlines… People read too fast to figure out what you are trying to say.