To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.