The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

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.

We may all be on the same journey but not necessarily on the same road.

Luck Doesn't Exist in one's world, its the unexplainable and the unexpected that makes some question fate

The Law of Chaos: Any activity or event that seems to lie beyond the boundaries of possibility will usually be the first thing to occur.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

Believing that you can achieve (and deserve) all that you want in your life is a critical step to your success. Don't waste your life believing you can't.

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.