Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

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.

Failure is a steppingstone to poverty, Cosmic Ordering is an elevator to success.

Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another.

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings...

Don't question your conscience so much--it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions.

There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him and then broke the mould.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing

I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.