Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?

Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...

Stupid crowds are the greatest wealth of the crook politicians!

One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.

Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.