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.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

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

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.

If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?