We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--

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

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