Michael Ende

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows.

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.