The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

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

Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.

And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.