Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

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.

Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.

Sometimes there were troubles but no one can be a hero without the heart being torn open.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.

I kind of weirdly fell into being an action hero...I have no f- idea how that happened. You have to remind people that you want to act rather than just run around

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.