It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.

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.

And there was that trick he did with time, making it speed up when we were together and drag til I saw him again.

Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!

There is only one course of action against terrorists: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home.

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

I won't admit or deny anything...makes me more interesting.

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to the world.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.