I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

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.

We live in a society where we wake up our kids for schools but not for Fajr.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

Liars often set their own traps.

Unlike water or wine or even Coca-Cola, sweet tea means something. It is a tell, a tradition. Sweet tea isn't a drink, really. It's culture in a glass.

I will always do what I want to do and I won't go with the crowd.

When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.