Talent is nothing but long patience.

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.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

Often the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Law ... begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.