What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

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.

No dream, no journey planed, no goals to dream for and achieve

Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

Our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the source of spiritual power that will give you and me the assurance that we have nothing to fear.

How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?

The Work is something living in our hearts and minds. Follow the path, see what changes take place within you, and what light begins to dawn in you.

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.