We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

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.

Sometimes souls are meant to meet and fleet for they have different contracts to complete.

It's lonely up in the top

I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didnt have to be a gigolo. In real life.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

Oy vey, these guys is New York's spineless Strangled and denied it for Anthony Baez

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

You didn't realize emotion could be a weapon? Have you not read the poetry of Jewel?

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

How many things are there which I do not want.

Words are as beautiful as wind horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral.