“Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.”

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I’ll remember you. When I’ve forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

One should never be where one does not belong.

You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it’s available. When the cost comes down, look out!

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn’t see?

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you’re pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it’s just a job. And life is too short for that.

A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.