The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

The past is the best prophet of the future.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.