When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?

A great artist is never poor.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Anytime you introduce volatility, it is not good for business and not good for travel.

What greater insult can you give God than to take your own life?

I believe that God created the Earth. I wasn't there, I don't know how long it took. I don't know how he did it exactly.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.