It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

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.

Do ACTS of MERCY in a BIG WAY.

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.

I grew up always knowing what I wanted to do, and I'm starting to see how rare that is. All of my friends are just figuring it out. It's a process of elimination until you find what you love.

It all would have been much better if individuals saved for their own old age.

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.

If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.