Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

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

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

I am a fox", the fox said.