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

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

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 civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.