By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

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.

Make my happiness--I will make yours.

The ink line drawing flowed the cursive journey, created on paper canvas that brought the story to life.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.