You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

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

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'