He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

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.

And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

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

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.