People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

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.

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

I tried water polo and my horse drowned... that was a nightmare.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.