Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.