The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

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

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.