The most powerful soporific is sleep itself.

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.

We should be wise in how we manage the little and then God can trust us with much

That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.

What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

Your life, in the end, is the sum total of how you spent your time.

I'm not an architectural composer.

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.