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

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

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

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?

A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world.

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.

She shuddered. “What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then.

Don't stand back with your arms folded step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of the things and stay there.

Enthusiastic service providers create enthusiastic customers.