“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
“What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”
“He who would travel happily must travel light.”
“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
“Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.”
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
“Man is but a network of relationships, and these alone matter to him.”
“The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.”
“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes.”
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”
“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries.”
“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”
“It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”
“To be a man is to feel that one’s own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.”
“Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but looking outward in the same direction.”
“Transport of the mail, 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.”
“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”
“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
“When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.”
“Every person you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.”
“Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.”
“Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“Happiness is found in simple, quiet moments of clarity.”
“You are beautiful, but you are empty.”
“To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.”
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
“The noblest things in life are not seen but are felt.”
“When one is too old for love, one becomes a philosopher.”
“He who has tamed the stars has grown wise in the face of the universe.”
“The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don’t see.”
“It is better to be alone than to be in bad company.”
“Do not forget that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“The meaning of life is found in the present moment, shared with others.”
“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.”
“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict.”
“Courage is not absence of fear, but mastery of it.”
“In giving, you become great.”