If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

The very helplessness of the public which makes it necessary for them to consult the experts also makes it impossible for them to judge how expert they are.

A man who walks with God, can walk anywhere. Hence, I fear nothing.

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.