I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
A goal without a pan is just a wish.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.
Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
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