She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.

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.

Only two classes of books have universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

I think I'm a different kind of role model for young girls.

Clearly money has something to do with life.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much gold from straw as you can from this financial alchemy

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.