Love 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.
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
War is not a true adventure. It is a mere ersatz. Where ties are established, where problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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.
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
You do not inherit the earth of your ancestors, you borrow it from your children.
The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
