It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says ‘I was beaten,’ he does not say ‘My men were beaten.’
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.
It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don’t care much for bull-fighters. It’s not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.