It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

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.

One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open.

Some people are wonderful, some wonderless.

Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.

If you think I have a great voice and body, youll be shocked as hell seeing and hearing me in the shower.

This is the land of dreamings, a land of wide horizons and secret places. The first people, our ancestors, created this country in the culture that binds us to it.

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

I wasn't a great student, C average. I was pretty shy, but I drank a lot of beer.

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.