That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

Develop your legitimate strangeness.

How can we live without the unknown before us?

What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.

Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.

Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

Time magazine put Chris Christie on the cover with the caption, 'The Elephant in the Room.' And People magazine named him 'Sexiest Garbage Truck in a Suit.'

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.

Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

I prefer older people to college kids [as audience] for the most part. I want people with life experience, people that understand where I'm coming from.

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.