Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

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

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.