There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.