Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

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.

Making mistakes is important because it makes you wiser.

Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

While America may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms.

Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Actually, I guess I shouldn't be so hard on myself. 2:23:11 is a very good time - a very good time for a woman that is.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Is Not An Economist, She Is A Demographer