The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.

The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpati. The Moslems would rather miss evening prayer than the new Disney movie. The Buddhists think it's more important to take over in the name of Stalin and Progress than to meditate on the four basic sorrows. And we don't even have to mention Christianity or Judaism.

Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.

There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

The soul is the weariest part of the body.

Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.