The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Only the children know what they are looking for.

The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.