It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.