“One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.”

“It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more value than the sparrows.”

“A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.”

“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”

“I cannot picture what the life of the spirit would have been without him. He found me when my mind and soul were hungry and thirsty, and he fed them till our last hour together. It is such comradeships, made of seeing and dreaming, and thinking and laughing together, that make one feel that for those who have shared them there can be no parting.”

“I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.”