There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

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.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.