Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Only the children know what they are looking for.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

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

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.