You’ll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, ‘What they could do, I can do.’
Flying is a man’s job and its worries are a man’s worries.
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general’s fault. It would be mine.
The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it...
It is the duty of the ship’s captain to make port, cost what it may.
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.
You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.
Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.
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.
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.