But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

It's useful because it's beautiful.

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.