In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.