I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.

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.

Money is perhaps the single most important parameter which influences our decision when it comes to a job.

How long did it take to become a gracious person? One who could accept help and give thanks without being resentful of it?

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

For you it is possible to do anything; the only thing impossible for you to do is to do wrong, inasmuch as you are knowledge and justice and love.

The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.

Why couldn't I have a fatal disease? It'd be so much easier.

I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.

A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.

Everyone's so nice in Thailand, and it's a beautiful place - the temples, the culture. But everyone's so nice that it's almost inefficient.