Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.