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 designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left 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.

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.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

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.

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.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

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

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

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

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.