“I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.”

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.

We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

In chaos, there is fertility.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Dried roses in the old novels make me believe in love stories.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Too many of us still believe our differences define us.

Your best days are still ahead. Stay in faith. Keep believing.