A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

You give birth to that on which you fix your mind