For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

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?

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.