Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

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.

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts

When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.

I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.

Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade?

I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.

The only thing I find executives down about is the regulatory environment.

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.

Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.

The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.