Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.