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

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.

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.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

Sometimes... the smallest drops in the bucket make the biggest ripples.

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.

The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but -- and to the extent that we find weakness, we'll move.

Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

It’s no more dangerous to society than a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.