It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...

Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.)