But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

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.

To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

Today's tears water tomorrow's gardens.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

I always sings too long and too loud.

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

When you have found inner peace, you are in constant contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired. . . You have endless energy.

The lie is different at every level.

The Immaculate Reception became the Zapruder Film of sports.