It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?

Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!

If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.

In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.

Do not sanction an absurdity.

Fiction is meant to illuminate, to explode, to refresh.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don't even let go. It lets go of itself.

Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.

I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.

You must be willing to do things today others won't do, in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.