The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

It doesn't sound logical to say that a man is an atheist just because he's probably someonewho knows his own God...personally.

We can never control change

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

To understand all is to forgive all.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.

The best songs for me come from the search for joy. You're in a negative place maybe, but you're still striving to improve yourself and find happiness.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.