Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

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 don't put bad people in the Void, Blayne. Only the guilty ones.

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.

The law of attraction or the law of love... they are one and the same.

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most.

... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do.

We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.