There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

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.

Grace is a good fortune.

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

Some wounds never show, not even in the mirror, until we see them in the expressions on the faces of people we love.

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes but what our purposes are to be.

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

Sometimes I wish I could go back in life, not to change things but just to feel things twice

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

Just you,' Hardy said when he got his breath back. 'All I want is you.

Life's not all about money.