"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction”
“Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself”
“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”
“Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite”
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”
“Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young”
“Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.”
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“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.”
“When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.”
"To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world."
“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.”
“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return”
"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."
"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."
"The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate."
"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."
"He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass."
"True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man."
"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."
"Tears are a kind of wealth."
