But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.

Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.

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

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.