For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]

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.

Do not allow anyone to dim your light.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

She is increasingly of the opinion that worrying about problems doesn't help solve them, but she hasn't really found an alternative yet. Surely you can't just leave them there.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

The dentist drills some more and you hear him make a mistake. And to cover it up, they all say the same thing: "Okay, rinse."

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

Let us ask the Lord for this grace: that our hearts become free and filled with light, so that we can rejoice as children of God.

Some part of us still believes that men should kill.

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.