The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

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.

Rules are made to be broken." - Jared

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

I think that the process of figuring out what kind of leader I wanted to be was challenging, because as an actor, you work alone, really.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

My hope is that every country in Latin America will make a significant commitment to supporting early childhood development programs.

Remember to pray fervently.