You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.