We are beings who seek the infinity of beauty over the finitude of time.

The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.

Man only has eyes to beauty when it costs them the inevitability of losing.

We cry for the hand of God to bring us salvation, but then we seize the voice of God and use it to profess our destructive nature.

Power is not a means

It's too noisy near the surface. To be able to concentrate with all your being, you must shut out all distractions. You must listen with your soul.

A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life

I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to the riots, to the barricade. I was too young, actually. Rather young.

The body can do incredible things as long as the mind supports it.

It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.

When did it become the law of the land that the Supreme Court has the final say on anything? They cannot have the final say on anything. The American people have the final say on anything.

Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?

I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.

My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee; Betwixt the stirrop and the ground, Mercy I askt, mercy I found.