Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

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.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent.

Since 99.362% of women love mustache rides, it seems only a fool would have a bare upper lip.

The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.