An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

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.

To begin life in a new way, forget to walk your habitual path, change your thoughts, and find a new way.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.

Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.

I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.