An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

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.

Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

To think is to say 'no.'

If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.

Hillary Clinton made no outreach to Muslim Americans or Arab Americans. So they have to insert themselves.

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

Certainly nobody gets married wanting to get divorced or even expecting to - except me.

here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.