One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

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 good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

Tammy Faye, I pray for every day. I really liked her. I wanted to be in their family.

I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on the surface of an imaginary sphere.

Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.

You're in my heart, you're in my soul. You'll be my breath, should I grow old.

Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.