“But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”

A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.

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

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

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

If you come at four in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by three.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.