How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

One only really sees with the heart.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

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.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.