When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

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.

I have no special gift. With deep love, I give what I have.

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend, ' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Life begins at fifty but so does bad eyesight arthritis and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same listeners.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Packing is my pet hate.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.

When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.

There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political.