I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

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.

Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy.

Money is like manure

Whatever your faith prompts you to do, begin now.

Save the World-ers

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

Mostly I try to be the best example of me that I can be.

One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people.

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.