He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

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.

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.

I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

This is women's moment to shift the tectonic plates of power on both the personal life and the leadership levels.

Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.

The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.

Idealism has devolved into madness.

My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.