One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

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.

Mind is your greatest asset..

Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.

Enthusiasm: If you don’t FEEL enthusiastic, ACT enthusiastic. Soon, you’ll BE enthusiastic. Double your enthusiasm and you’ll probably double your income.

We have to know before we can act.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

Paul Scholes is just fantastic. When you play alongside him, you realise what a special talent he is.

I think everybody makes mistakes. People do things that they regret.

That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.