For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

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.

Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.

I don't know how to drive a car.

I like wearing my dad's sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.

It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn't able to see a difference.

I absolutely love what I do, and I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I am putting out there on the stage.

Forget about shortcuts. Instead, enjoy the wonders of your path.

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!