Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he does; and it isonly when he is no longer concerned with them that, suddenly, as a result of work coming from elsewhere, accomplished within the one who did not love him, these barriers, formerly attacked without success, fall futilely.

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.

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.

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.