A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

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

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.