From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

We see things the way we are, not the way they are.

the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.