Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

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.

When one cautions you, he is a 'lighthouse' and if one find faults with the lighthouse, when will that ship reach safely [to its destination]?.

You can't build a wall round a village.The sun and the windwill always find their way in.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak.

At Odessa we became Texans, and proud of it.

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

When I danced, I felt I was entering the temple of Art.

Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe.