Quotes by Aviator

"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."

"But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you."

"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh."

"There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity - for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?"

"Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree."

"Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite."

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly."

"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."

"I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."

"If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists."

"Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas."

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."

"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."

"If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands."

"One must observe the proper rites."

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

"More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use."

"It's useful because it's beautiful."

"It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal."

"There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories."

"She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her."

"I am a fox", the fox said."

"Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility."

"The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate."