Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

Teeth aren't pearly, until you smile.

Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

Existence is an imperfection.

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

Leadership is knowing what you want and making it happen.

Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.