Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Explanation is a well-dressed error.

Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

I think I'm going to be stereotyped forever, but I'm not scared of being stereotyped.

There is no such thing as a future decision. There are only present decisions that affect the future.