Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

A woman is only as beautiful as she believes she is, if she can't convince herself, no one else can.

Never be too confident or doubtful when everything is uncertain in life.

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

Luck is like an atheistic word for God.

Treat every moment of your life with Divine respect. Love passionately your God-given miraculous life.