It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes

If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.