One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.