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.

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.