I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.