Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.