Quotes by writer

"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another."

"Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree."

"Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality."

"Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations."

"Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."

"We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning."

"When you give yourself, you receive more than you give."

"Straight ahead you can't go very far."

"I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace."

"Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries."