You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

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'?

Love is revealed progressively.

Hate was such a waste of human resources. So little was accomplished with hate, so much more with love.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

We allow each other to pursue our goals. I wouldn't want to be married to someone who was not happy with what they were doing with their life and Bono wouldn't either.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.