Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.

So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.