“Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.”

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

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.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

In light of recent events can you tell me where to find the light?

With all the secrets and lies you keep. Your beauty is only skin deep. Vamp.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

If you are going to chase away your demons, you have to go to where they are.

My roots tell secrets my mind will never know but my soul remembers and that is more than enough.

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.

You make my life meaningful, she smiled at the woman looking at her in the mirror.