No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

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.

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas

When you learn to talk people up, you will never talk yourself down.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

It's fun wandering around other people's minds.

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.

Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.