A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

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.

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline the gist of the story.But I never get much beyond that. I get too impatient to write.

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy.

Stop being so… optimistic. It’s getting on my nerves.