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.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.