I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

Man is, above all, he who creates.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.