In Russia, they say I'm a Pole, in Poland they call me Russian.

The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken!

I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither.

There is a way to open up the chakras, there is a mystical way. But if you do that, you'll get yourself into very hot water, and it's ultimately slower.

Harmony is next to Godliness

And I swear that I don't have a gun.

It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

Beauty is where you find it.

I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.

First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort.

But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.