Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

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.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Love yourself.Love who you are.

A lot of people fail to prosper because they are too busy dreaming in their sleep than chasing their dreams in life.

Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.

When people warn me about someone - the label head or the publishing head - that somebody is difficult, I'm in heaven.

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands.

Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.

I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process