A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

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

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

And you came to Finland to build a station?""No I came here on vacation to visit a friend.""That's good, " the driver said. "Vacations and friends are the two best things in life.

Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own life, day by day, to keep my mind centered on Christ.

Believe is the gateway to great treasures.

Stalin's methods did not help.

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Are you unstable about your relationship to Christ?

I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.