When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say theway God sees events from above?

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.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

I know what I want! And I just go for it.

A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions.

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.