What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

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 know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again.

He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

Man plans. God laughs.

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later.

To allow your Spirit to manifest, you have to understand Its nature. Spirit can never be aggressive, can never dominate. It respects the freedom of another person because It's a free being.

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know