"We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery."

"When all is lost, there is still a memory."

"Oblivion cures the old wounds."

"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."

"There is no born lover, there is no born Don Juan, for we are all lovers."

"To dream on occasion is not dreaming; to love on occasion is not love."

"There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection."

"Fly without wings; dream with open eyes."

"Every thought about death takes a moment of life away."

"In every moment the past is born and the present flows into the future, taking the moment that already passed."

"Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure."

"Without pleasure there is no sight or measure."

"Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to the knowledge without feeling."

"Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space."

"Although personal calling I sense—who am I? even if I am, I don't know."

"Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line."

"Great poets are great copy editors."

"To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps."

"In trying to be perfect, he perfected the art of anonymity."

"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?"

"My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world."

"There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky."

"He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door."

"A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons."

"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."

"They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night."

"I fly through memory to find a newborn love."

"A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams."

"To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light."

"There can be no forced inspiration."

"His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time."

"If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago, he would've thought they were birds or angels from another world."

"And what does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?"

"A star needs a star."

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

"There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle."

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

""Into the half light and shadow go I. Within my head"

"I am a weary heart surrounded by life's frothy ocean."

"Always another path you seek: today I seek no more."

"At all times pseudoprofound aphorisms have been more popular than rigorous arguments."

"The fact that a great many scientists signed Faustian pacts with the war devil throughout the twentieth century has given science a bad name, and has discouraged many able youngsters from pursuing a scientific career."

"In academia much bogus knowledge is tolerated in the name of academic freedom – which is like allowing for the sale of contaminated food in the name of free enterprise. I submit that such tolerance is suicidal: that the serious students must be protected against the “anything goes” crowd."

"Bunge: In September I will be 90 years old. Reporter: You look very youthful. Bunge: That's because I avoid alcohol, tobacco, and postmodernism."