The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

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.

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.

Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand.

it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.

And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.