In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.