Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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.

I’m the guy who knows how you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they’re cut and bleeding.

To feel sorry for oneself is one of the most disintegrating things the individual can do to himself.

If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.

Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait till you feel that you are in the mood. Write, whether you are feeling inclined to write or not.

Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.

In school, I was an underachiever.

I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.