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

“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.”

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

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

“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”

“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”

“Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.”

“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”