If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

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.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

Destiny is a matter of chance and choice.

Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!

Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

I only believed in three things: my right fist, my left fist, and my gut.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Somalia is facing many problems, I don't even know where to start.