As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.

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.

Success always hugs you in private, but failure slaps you in the public...

Playing Solitaire is a non-smoking employee’s smoke break.

Sometimes I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment but it’s never after accomplishing something.

My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.

All things come to him who waits - even justice.

It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

[The dancing] was a challenge. It was fun, though. I was nervous, at first, because I danced so long ago that it was weird picking it back up.

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.