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.

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

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

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.