I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
Truths may clash without contradicting each other.
A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
The one thing that matters is the effort.
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.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
A goal without a pan is just a wish.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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.
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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.
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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