“The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.”

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.

There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

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

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Every time I close my eyes, it’s like a dark paradise.

You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.