One only really sees with the heart.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.