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

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

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

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.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.