As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.

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.

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

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.