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

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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.

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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

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

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

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

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

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

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

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Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

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

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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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