The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

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

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

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.