You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.

Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

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

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