All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

On ne sait jamais! One never knows!

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.

Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.