When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address.

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.

For the world is a hard place and nothing comes without a price.

People cannot turn you into a foot mat if you clearly know your true self-worth.

Panties are a privilege, not a right.

We read to learn.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science.

Listening to music that I hate calms me down.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

As usual, no one's ever around when you need them.