When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world

The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

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

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.