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

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.