One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

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.

It is God who makes woman beautiful it is the devil who makes her pretty.

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.

Hopefully people are upset for the reason I want them to be upset. Even when I was doing open mics, I've always had people upset. I've never been the consummate crowd-pleaser.

no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

Nobody loves a fat girl, but oh how a fat girl can love.

I don't give out compliments easily.

I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad. OK? It's a cruel world, Walt. Grow up.