Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

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.

It is better to be slave to the Saviour than satan.

The toughest moment ever in life is the distance between struggle and success.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

If I judged anybody I wouldn't have any friends.

The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That’s very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.

Part of the way that I work is to observe.

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated.

What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

Thunder only happens when it's raining.