You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial

Love is beautiful, shattering, moving, haunting. Love is everything.

Western environmentalists might value their independence, but their organizations are largely donor driven, and if he wanted to, Putin could have a lot to donate.

The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.

All the disappointments, broken dreams and deep dark experiences will soon be forgotten and blotted out like a bad dream, when that glorious dawn of Heaven arrives!

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.

Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.

Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.

If your goal has no inherent reward, you do not have a goal.