The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

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.

Your breaking point will be a bloody refuge, not a clean slate.

I think sometimes it's hard to know what you feel, or to know what's real and what's not, because love or hate or any feeling is a belief. You can say you hate someone, but you don't truly know them.

The best thing I've done? Well, I've created four beautiful children.

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

I can be a subversive element.

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.