It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.

Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

The first step in the journey is to lose your way.

Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.

I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.

Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness

Let our scars fall in love.

Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

Youth is an unpleasant period

Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.

I think CGI is interesting but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

The word 'retirement' is not in my vocabulary right now.

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

I hope one day people don't look at women like they're out of their minds when they want to pick up an instrument and play. And I think we're getting a lot closer to that.

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.