One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

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.

Going to church is not a sign of going to God, if you think he is omnipresent, he is right there in your soul and bedroom.

God want u to use what is buried in you to show your greatness

One who rules is ruled.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

It takes many years to be a great comedian.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

What can the will do when the heart commands?

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.