The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

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.

Your dreams will define your destiny.

Kindness is virtue itself.

As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth.

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

All our thinking constitutes the new world, but all our thoughts are older and older.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.

America is a white man's country.

Maintenance is terribly important.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.