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

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.

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

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."