Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.

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.

Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise.

LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!

And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

I'm fast for a heavyweight.

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!

I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.