Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

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.

Loving leaders allow for individuality in style and expression.

There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind.

Your intuition and your intellect should be working together… making love. That’s how it works best.

Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.