The future is the worst thing about the present.

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.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

The spirit of love arranges all meetings in divine order for the highest good of all concerned.

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind.

We have to take care of the people that can't take care of themselves. And I will do that through a different system.

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.