I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City

Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important

Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.

Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

A man who don't know history, he don't know anything.

When you violate the law of growth, your influence winds down, your progress gets arrested, and many more negative consequences...

A calm water is like a still soul.

Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.

I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.

I just rocked the eye chart, So if you can't see it, now you know it by heart.

That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing.

So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.