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

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.