The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

Parallel lines meet at infinity. Looking back from said point, do parallel lines ever not meet?

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

We're burnin' daylight!

Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti