Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

If there were no cherry blossoms in this world How much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring.

Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.

Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of God.

When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

People say that rock 'n' roll is dead, and I am making it my mission to resurrect it. I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.

Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "I will." And try "I can."