What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!

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.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

The things we don't understand will come back again.

. . .but he'd seen elite warriors go down in flames enough times to struggle with the sovereignty of God yet yield to it

This life is like a game, so you better play it right!

You bothered yourself and changed the season. I was left behind with your awful sounds.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

Life is fragile, unless your in the NFL in which case you'll need to wear padding.

Win as though you were used to it, and lose as if you like it.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.