Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

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.

You cannot travel to the known

You're unstoppable not because you're stronger than your challenges/competitors. It's because you're consistent. You won’t quit easily!!!

The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever.

Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life's purpose.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

Why do men feel threatened by women?

One of the lessons of 9/11 and (Hurricane) Katrina was 'communication, communication, communication, .. We don't want to have to say 'should have, could have, would have.'.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

I watched a lot of comedy growing up.