When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.

On ne sait jamais! One never knows!

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

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

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--