What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

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

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

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.

The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.