It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

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.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president.

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

Life is a journey, and I'm finding myself every day!

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.