The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

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.

When you stand on top of that mountain and you look out, you will know that you will never again look back.

I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.

You don't need a great cathedral for a great marriage. All you need is fate to be on your side

The abnormal, the sick, the vicious have become more and more interwoven into the violent culture of the United States. Into the way news is seen, into the way movies are seen.

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.