To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

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.

If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your beain will live, but your heart will die

She knew Neal loved her. Good for him for realizing it wasn't enough to make him happy. That was very mature of him. He was probably saving them both a lot of heartache.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

And Ritchie has now scored 11 goals, exactly double the number he scored last season

Now remember, we've already done more than a billion dollars worth of cuts. We've already done that. So we need to get some credit for that.

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

The more you know the less you understand.

You must be on your toes constantly, yet be relaxed.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.