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

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.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

But if there’s love, dear – those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart, forever.

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.