...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

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.

The effective use of time is the best-kept secret of those who have created a successful life and continue to experience it every day

We watched, and he taught us like he did every day we were with him. He showed us how to forgive.

I will do what I must to protect you. If you were seriously hurt…Don’t make me live with that. Don’t make me have to survive your death.

You are nothing but trouble." If he'd meant to censure her, then he had the wrong girl. Trouble wasn't a dirty word when you were a Sweet.

Africa is on the rise.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

President Obama is currently on a week-long trip to Africa, where he will promote freedom, democracy, and economic opportunity. I guess he figured it hasn't worked here - so try it somewhere else.

I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore