To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.