One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

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.

There is no boundary between heaven and earth unless we believe in one.

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound.

I don't really cook meat. I eat a bit of seafood but I'm not really into meat and the idea of cooking it is pretty intense.

For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.

It was a love of perpetual flight.

Iraq will succeed because the Iraqis will see to it that they succeed. And our job is to help them succeed. That's our job.

You don't come into the more without responding to what you already know.

Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.

I love playing a curmudgeon. I just love playing a sour guy.