Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

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.

And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved face.

We experience a new life with divine encounter.

Time is the king of men.

The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house." - Charlie Swan

A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.