Dream and don’t ask too many questions, or fear will overcome your feelings.
We assume, falsely, that how we feel now is how we will feel in the future.
Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.
I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is a bridge that allows different cultures to connect. You may not understand your neighbour’s way of seeing life, but you sure understand your neighbour’s joy in painting or dancing.
Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.
We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.
Be realistic: always wish the impossible.
To believe in your choice you don’t need to prove that other people’s choices are wrong.
Man needs what’s worst in him in order to achieve what’s best in him.
I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It’s like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.
The visible is always a mirror of the invisible. The reality is imagined before it manifests itself.
It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!
He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.
Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you’d sink into chaos.
Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.
They make a secret pact with themelves never to think about the future.
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words.
God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.
We can’t choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we’re given.