The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

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.

The life that brings light in the family often attracts darkness in form of envy and hatred that stands as encumbrances

These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

The things that matter most are not things.

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.