Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

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.

Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.

We can’t expect others to abandon their values any more than we would forsake our own.

My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.