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.

He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.

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

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.