What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

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…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?