To be a man is to feel that one’s own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say “My men were beaten ” he says “I was beaten.”
Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.
There is no hope or joy except in human relations.
Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.
It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you.
Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says ‘I was beaten’ he does not say ‘My men were beaten.’
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step but you have to take it.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight put your mind on the strategy of the fight and you will not feel the other fellow’s punches.
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say “My men were beaten ” he says “I was beaten.”
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.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says ‘I was beaten’, he does not say ‘My men were beaten.’
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.