We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.

The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.

One must observe the proper rites.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.