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.

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

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.

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."