The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

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.

The more we dig this world, the more prisoners we become

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuosly.Always have more people to see than you have time to see them .

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

Social Security was always supposed to be basically, in theory, an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

All true children of God have God for their father and Mary for his mother; anyone who does not have Mary for his mother, does not have God for his father.

Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.

Love is the human family’s most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.

It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up.