We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.