It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

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.

The thing about growing up with Fred and George, " said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Write a complaint letter. Then answer it.

I heard someone say one time that 'anger after five seconds is just pride.

You can't truly understand a fact by watching its' true story version.

You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.

My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme

People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.