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.

It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.