The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.