Every man's memory is his private literature.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Humility is attentive patience.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.