But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.