Occupation: Writer Birth: June 29, 1900 Death: July 31, 1944
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on..
Language is the source of misunderstandings..
I saw the sunset forty-four times!.
If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea..
The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky..
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have ….
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becom….
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery..
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs ov….
When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach ….
The one thing that matters is the effort..
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 h….
Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together..
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life..
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it..
Grown ups are certainly very strange..
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 mo….
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, strugg….
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away..
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want ….
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 wi….