“Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.”

“To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.”

“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.”

“He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.”

“Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.”

“Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.”

“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”

“Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.”

“Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.”

“There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.”

“Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.”