Beautiful things spoil nothing.

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.

Only write a story that only you can write.

Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.

Ya got to watch them bears, Lillie Girl, ” her father said, looking worried, “ ‘specially the renegade ones. They’ll turn you every way but loose.

Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

Colors speak all languages.

Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.

One thing I agree with Donald Trump on is, there's something going on in the Muslim world.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

One thing we do well within evangelicalism is in thinking of Jesus as our friend. But He is also our King.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.