The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

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.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Malicious or not, strong leaders always attracted followers

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.

The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv.

It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating." At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.

If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late

The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.