The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

On ne sait jamais! One never knows!

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.