If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

You give birth to that on which you fix your mind

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

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

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

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.