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

The only things you learn are the things you tame

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

I am a fox", the fox said.

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.

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

You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.