 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. |
| The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. |
| Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. |
| 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. |
| Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. |
| Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. |
| The one thing that matters is the effort. |
| Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction. |
| Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. |
| 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. |
| Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. |
| When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. |
| 'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.' |
| Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. |
| Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it. |
| It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. |
