What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

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.

:You Can overcome any obstacle. You can achieve the most tremendous things by faith power.

Failure is not actually an event, it is more a reaction to an event and is an important part of learning.

Though the cross repels, it also attracts. It possesses a magnetic quality.

It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy.

I am providing a service that many people obviously value.

You only win when you help others win.

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?

Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.