You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

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.

To all those smiles that makes a beautiful mosaic ❤️ adding beauty to life

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for.

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

One night I'd had some beers, and then I Googled myself and spent the night in tears.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.

If anybody comes up to you and says, My kid is a conservative - why is that? you say, Remember in the 60′s when we told you if you kept using drugs your kids would be mutants?

To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.