Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

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.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.

Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.

Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

In Literature, only trouble is interesting.

Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.