It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.

Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)