How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

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.

Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

As long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train'

You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

If I found Yoko Ono floating in my pool, I'd punish my dog.

Dietrich would never do that

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.