After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

The GR site has acquired its market value through the work of its community.

You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you there of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right But where's the bloody horse?

I would kiss you, had I the courage.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.

To be great, you must be misunderstood

Life, unfortunately, doesnʹt seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

I think The Room is something magnetic, a certain magnetism in The Room that is related to human behavior, and that's why people relate to it.