We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

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.

What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.

For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.

Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.

I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.

If you tiptoe into cold water, you're missing out on the rush of plunging in headfirst.