Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!"

There are only two types of music.good and bad.

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

I hate thin people; 'Oh, does the tampon make me look fat?'

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

People deal with me, but they are genuinely fond of Prim. Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive.

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!