I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

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 cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for military families. To have to worry about your loved ones and still try and live a normal life is extremely hard.

You ever see a poptart do the moonwalk? Magic

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

You wouldn't run a marathon the day before you run a marathon, you need to leave some sort of surprise for your body.

Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?

Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

If I make a double bogey, the fans on whatever hole better watch out; I might throw it. I might throw it at them.

Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.