C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.