The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation.

Desire makes everything blossom

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.