The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow, ” and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.

I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.

If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to one another?

I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.

I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.

Forgive all who have offended you not for them but for yourself.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.

The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.

Don't live to fight, fight to live.

I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.