Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

I still fall for your everyday.

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

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

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

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

It's useful because it's beautiful.