It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act.

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.

There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

The world is abundant with food for us, and with everything we need, if only we just open our eyes. There's so much food that gets thrown out or never harvested.

A man perfect to the finger tips.

Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Do I want to be feared or loved? That's a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.