We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.