All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

When the world makes me feel like I am alone, love reminds me otherwise.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Owning our past allows us to own our future.

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

It must be God first, God second, and God third

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.