Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

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.

There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.

If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.

Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.

You don't just sit in the car and let some guy drive you through life, wasting your time.

The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.