A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.