I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

Love an enemy with unconditional trust.Reveal his treasure to him without any thrust.

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

Food keeps us alive, as we all know. Nourishment allows us to grow and be healthy. But good cooking takes us beyond survival and into the realms of culture and pleasure.

Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful.

It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.