“If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.”

“If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.”

“It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”

“It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.”

“Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.”

“Every star was darker than the night before it awoke.”

“From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.”