Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.

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 curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.

What do you think you're doing?

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.

To overextend yourself is to invite defeat.

Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.

I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations

Do less; observe more; enjoy most.

Jiujitsu is simple, you just gotta do it right.

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.