I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing. 'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water...' And he, too, said nothing more.

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.

One only really sees with the heart.