“'Men have forgotten this truth, ' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'”
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten, ' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
