...and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver.

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.

As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.

I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.

Work certainly does help fill a void.

You can celebrate the female form in comfort.

... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

We have every right to dream heroic dreams.

O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.