I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

Never a day without a line.

You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.

We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.

It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.