I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

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.

You can't be Great if you can't blaze the trail

I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?

People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda.

Do not look to your hope, but to Jesus, the Source of your hope.

When you have a vision of where you need to go, it sounds utopian. But when you get to the tipping point, your understanding switches.

I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done.

One day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't. And I said to myself: 'is that all there is to love?'

Stars don't sit still, they twinkle

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind.