We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

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.

Who’s there?”“The scratcher of your itch, ” he said.She opened the door a crack and stuck her nose out. “Was that supposed to be romantic?

Your wishes and desires make clear who you are.

I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

I'll fight anybody who grabs the rope to hang themselves.

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.

I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.

Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.