To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

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

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

You must determine your goal. What matters most? Winning arguments? Or resembling Christ? Even in the heat of an argument we should be asking ourselves if we are acting like Christ.

Let them eat cake.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

I listen to music constantly, and I'm always hearing things I love that I'm excited to use.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

I think I'm losing my hair finally. And, yeah, that's kind of all I know.

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.

I have named myself an unofficial ambassador for Australia and I have the biggest mouth on Earth.

I don't have an attitude! And it CERTAINLY... doesn't need to be adjusted!