Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.

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.

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

As you age, feelings do diminish.

Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

I got really excited about Beyoncé, but it was Beyoncé. I think I was more in awe of how pleasant she is.

Mrs. Loontwill did what any well-prepared mother would do upon finding her unmarried daughter in the arms of a gentleman werewolf: she had very decorous, and extremely loud, hysterics.

It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

Sophia Loren, whose new baby asked her, Is all that for me? Never got a dinner!

A word refers to something in the real world and so, in a way, does a photo. It's not the thing itself, but it's a kind of suggestion of where you might look for that thing.