True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by a pressure they do not feel, are forced to do their work like ants. With what do they fill their time when they are free of work on their silly little Sundays? I am very fortunate in my profession. I feel like a farmer, with the airstrips as my fields. Those that have once tasted this kind of fare will not forget it ever. Not so, my friends?