A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

We sit and talk, quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language, coursingbeneath the quiet heaven ofyour eyeswhich has no speech

When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.

Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.

I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.

A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.

I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident.

Whether you have been aware of your thoughts in the past or not, now you are becoming aware. Right now, with the knowledge of The Secret, you are waking up from a deep sleep and becoming aware!