And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.

The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

It's useful because it's beautiful.

Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?

But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.