Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.

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.

There's great power in not fearing solitude. You don't allow yourself to be treated like crap because you're afraid of the alternative.

Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.

Everybody is entertained to death.

I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.

You are greater than you know.

This time [2016] is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.

When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale.