When the night is cold

Some get by but some get old

Just to show life’s not made of gold

When the night is cold

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

When my father died 

it was like a whole library

Had burned down.

You live your life as if it's real,

a thousand kisses deep.

I was born to use my eyes

Dream with the sun and the skies

To float away in a lifelong song

In the mist where melody flies.

Create all the happiness you are able to create;

remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, 

we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

I am a part of all that I have met.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: 

First, by reflection, which is noblest; 

Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and 

third by experience, which is the bitterest.

The only thing that binds me to the turning world below

and all the people and noise and sounds and shouts.

This tightrope made of sound

This long thin line made of my own blood.

When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life,

lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence

and leading the individual towards freedom.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; 

it is a profound source of spirituality.