When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
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.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.