A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

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.

Come slowly over the hills and valleys to touch my soul, feel my heart, and vanish in my joy.

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

How I feel is inconsequential to all that I have stopped feeling for.

When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought, 'Please don't fall over, please don't fall over, please don't fall over!'

It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.

We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

Seen from the moon we are all the same size.

You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.