Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

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.

For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator.

There exist possibilities in every problem.

How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?

Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.

I subscribe to the thought that it doesn’t matter if it’s right or wrong. What matters is what works.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.

It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.