No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.

Did not we vow that we would neither of us be either before or after the other even in travelling the last journey of life? And can you find it in your heart to leave me now?

I can't see anything" he said in a muffled voice, hand over his eyes. "I'm blind.

I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.

Romanticism is the expression of man’s urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.

When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.

I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!