Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.