What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.

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

Where I live, everything is very small.

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.