But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.

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.

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.