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

Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.