If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

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 my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

I would like to be someone like Steve Martin. That's the path I'd like to follow.

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?

Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell.

Many people have a very hard time truly believing that doing the right thing by others, striving to serve them to the greatest extent, can actually be a competitive advantage.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

What keeps me going is my children.

No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was.

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.