To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

The big art is our life.

I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it.

To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem

Simple is the only way I can write.

Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.

A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence.

Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea.

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.