We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

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.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

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.