If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.

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

There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity - for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?