It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.

Life really could be an enjoyable experience, if we only knew what it demands of us.

We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don't speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.