Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

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.

I stood in the isle thinking about my future, while the man next to me complained, but when I asked him what his dream was he never answered.

Every life is precious, has value, a purpose, and is significant. Each life adds value to this world and to the lives of others. That value is immeasurable.

In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.

How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?

If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and thats what matters.