God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

—Paul Valéry

At times I think and at times I am.

—Paul Valéry

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

—Paul Valéry

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

—Paul Valéry

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

—Paul Valéry

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

—Bjork

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

—Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing ever goes away.

—Barry Commoner

Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.

—Leslie Nielsen

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.

—Milan Kundera