A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
The one thing that matters is the effort.
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.
We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
Night, when words fade and things come alive.
I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one’s comrades. It is to feel, when setting one’s stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.