I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

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.

Leaders create awareness in their followers about the great potentials they carry and how to release them for the benefit of all. Leaders are motivators,

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.

Enriching others is the only way to get rich, if that is what we desire. The more we serve, the more we deserve, getting what we give, no more and no less.

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.