A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.