By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty 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 the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.

We love things that are dangerous yet sexy. We love things that are powerful and wise.

I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.

As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more important than what is coming up in the future.

The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.

If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.