Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

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

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

I was too young to know how to love her.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.