Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

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.

I never ask perception about me to anyone but mirror, it never lies.

A relationship is like a tree.The deeper the roots are, the more it will grow.The deeper the friendship is, the more it will grow.

O Lord forgive what I have been sanctify what I am and order what I shall be.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.

I really liked it best when I was a nobody.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.

I can do things at 45, not because I can do a bunch of pull-ups, it's because I do Yoga!