We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

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.

If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love.

A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.

The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.

I know I ain't too old. I always think of my fans about 10 years older and 10 years younger than me.

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.

I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

A word to the wise is sufficient