Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

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.

God is the captain of our lives, sometimes He diverts our plans and our ideas, let Him do so because he will never let us do something daft.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.

How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

You need teamwork to achieve real success, and that attitude comes straight from soccer.

There is still a future with music, because people want music

I had did so much to Larry [Holmes] in the ring that I made him respect me in the fight.

Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.