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

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

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 machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.