One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
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 time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.