The original is unfaithful to the translation.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

With a good music and a good dance, you enhance your physical, emotional, spiritual and mental well-being.

Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

O what a disgrace if such a despised and base race, which worships demons, should conquer a people which has the faith of omnipotent God and is made glorious with the name of Christ!