What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

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.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

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

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?