One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

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.

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

TV has gotten so boring that the only thing I watch is the news.

The inactivity of a conqueror betrays the loss of strength and blood . . .

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.

Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.

You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer, when Mama prayed.