If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

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 good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ray Charles, who said to Stevie Wonder, Maybe we're white. Never got a dinner!

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.

It is what you are inside that matter. You, yourself, are your only real capital.