We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

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.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.

I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!

Trust that you are connected to your being, which knows what to do at all times.

The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.

I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says-and thrilled by it too, because it means I don't have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed.