Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

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.

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

I consider myself a pretty hardworking guy and I like to play hard, play physical and play well defensively too.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.