Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

The true enemy of man is generalization.

Freedom gives room for creativity.

Everyone roams in darkness, A wise always find the light.

Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

The earth itself is a great big magnet.

As you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence.

Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.

I had privately changed 'This, too, shall pass' into 'You, too, shall die'.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.