“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”

“Where words leave off, music begins.”

“With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.”

“The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.”

“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”

“Lieb Liebchen, leg s Hndchen aufs Herze mein; -Ach, hrst du, wies pochet im Kmmerlein,Da hauset ein Zimmermann schlimm und arg,Der zimmert mir einen Totensarg.Es hmmert und klopfet bei Tag und bei ...”

“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabular...”

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”

“Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses”

“Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.”