There is no truth. There is only perception.

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.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.

In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

Do you respond to life or are you merely reacting to it?