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.

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

On ne sait jamais! One never knows!

Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.