Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal.

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.

One flub, one little mistake, could ruin everything.

I’ve never known anyone who was saved who did not first save herself.

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.

I was an illegal immigrant.

What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.