“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.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”