We love only what we do not wholly possess.

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.

A rose struggling in a desert is still braver than a flower flourishing in a rain forest.

I'm not gonna be able to grow a beard. I've realized my limitations as a human.

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross

To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war