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

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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

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

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.

Every struggle is like mud - there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout.

Everyone in my family always spares one another's feelings. It leaves little room for honesty.

Greatness is inspiring others to be their best.

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.

[He] was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.

Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done they look forward to create a better future.

We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.