Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

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.

In a beautiful night, under the stars, man always feels himself above the sky, beside the God!

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.

A pauper in the midst of wealth.

A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.