I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.

Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]

Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells