Read in oreder to live

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.

We all want to know and be known. That's why doing good is so powerful when the focus is first and foremost the people and not the project.

You can't lie a lifetime, son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you

Love is not blind but it leads to blindness.

Joy is not in things it is in us.

So my blog wasn't about "platform" but really, it was everything you are not "supposed" to do in blogging.

Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, I'm going to present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs.

I have a fear of failure.

The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.