One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

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.

When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her.

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

In every man there is something of all men.

He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

It's just a matter of time before we're late.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.