There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'.

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.

God himself is referring to Jesus as light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom

If you are anything other than humbled in the presence of love, you are not in the presence of love.

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports.

I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.

All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the Army, so he could help me in that direction.

I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.