Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

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.

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?