What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

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.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.

The most beautiful road is the road you think it is the most beautiful road!

Just being out of the house with Daddy like this at Fisher's lights me up enough for somebody to read by me.

And besides, I couldn't stay at the party. It was too dangerous. I nearly died.""From what?""Boredom.

City diversity represents accident and chaos.

That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying to make good to dwell on characters from previous books.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.