People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly!

Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental.

I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

A soldier never dies. His blood makes the grass green for his children.

I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

Dare to do what you dare to dream.

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.