The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Une philosophie doit etre portative.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.

I haven't been to Comic-Con.

When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

Shade and light are different in every valley.

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.