Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

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.

Your calling is concealed in you and has to be discovered by you alone

Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

If you think killing people is a solution to a problem, I not only disagree with you but also I hate your perspective.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

I can look at a fur and tell if it's good or not.

Every single child should have the chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.

It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.