If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.