if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

You give birth to that on which you fix your mind

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

He who never says "no" is no true man.

I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.