When You Want To Build A Ship,

Commonly, People Believe That Defeat Is Characterized By A General Bustle And A Feverish Rush. Bustle And Rush Are The Signs Of Victory, Not Of Defeat. Victory Is A Thing Of Action. It Is A House In The Act Of Being Built. Every Participant In Victory Sweats And Puffs, Carrying The Stones For The Building Of The House. But Defeat Is A Thing Of Weariness, Of Incoherence, Of Boredom. And Above All Of Futility.

One Must Require From Each One The Duty Which Each One Can Perform. Accepted Authority Rests First Of All On Reason.

No Single Event Can Awaken Within Us A Stranger Whose Existence We Had Never Suspected. To Live Is To Be Slowly Born.

War Is Not An Adventure. It Is A Disease. It Is Like Typhus.

When One Wishes To Play The Wit, He Sometimes Wander A Little From The Truth.