Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.

You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.