It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Love is something you have or don’t have. Love is like a fever.

On the shores of tranquility, meet me between now and again.

That’s the best thing about friendship. It is a gift that cannot be lost. Only thrown away.

Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.

In my view, the best gift is one that benefits both the receiver and the planet.

I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.

Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

Technological change is beneficial only when other jobs replace the ones lost.

Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of the world that has a Gap and Benneton's, and the upscale versions of those.