“Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?”

“When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it's caterpillar life.”

“Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.”

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”

“How does one become a butterfly?" she asked."You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”

“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”