How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.

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.

Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasnt always translated to the streets.

Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.

Nap time over. Gonna go be active. Do it people!!! In the end all you have is your health.

I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.