The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.

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.

80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music.

If you're having trouble finding someone to play with, why don't you just go play with yourself.

You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

Oddly enough, success over a period of time is more expensive than failure.

I think we are trying to improve for next week. Period. I do not think anybody is thinking about anything else.

I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.

I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models.