Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.
A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow’s punches.
I saw the sunset forty-four times!
I shall never again admire a merely brave man.
When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world.
If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!
It’s hard luck always having to be a judge.
I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
She knew this man’s smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.
Only the children know what they are looking for.
Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.