Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.

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.

Habits of the mind also provide our mental framework – the way we see the world

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.

A beautiful woman moved in next door. So I went over and returned a cup of sugar. She said, "You didn't borrow this." I said, " I will!"

If we can keep at least a bit of the mind clear about temporality, we can mange complicated, even difficult, times with grace.