Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

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.

Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

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