Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

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.

And, for the gods sake, don't waste the whole day working! Make time for a bit of adventure dear. This life is only so long.

Every beautiful thing that life has to offer, demands the habit of relentlessness.

A poem without metaphor is a gelding

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed.

Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.

Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.

Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.