If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.