It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

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

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.

The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.