You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.