The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

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.

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.

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

It is not a religion. It is a relationship.

The Creator of the universe knows me.

How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

To truly try is to give all you have, when you have nothing left.

I had to brainwash myself, like what I was doing was going to be really, really good, and then just accept whatever happened.

In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.