“No one is ever satisfied where he is.” 

“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.”

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

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."

"Man's "progress" is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning"

"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction"

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."

“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.” 

"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

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

"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."

"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."

“When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?” 

'You must be very patient,' replied the fox. 'First you will sit down at a little distance from me-like that-in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day...” 

“I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...” 

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."

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

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

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

"Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?"

A constitution is the arrangement of magistrates in a state.

All human beings, by nature, desire to know.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Each man judges well the things he knows.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Hope is a waking dream.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.