You can't find the soul with a scalpel.

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 would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.

I am awaitingperpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder

Long distance relationship is like a dream, It can be SWEET, It can be SADandIt can also be a NIGHTMARE.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

Think big. Start small.