The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

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.

PRESIDENT BARTLETT: "See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.

I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

A man is powerful on his knees.

Oh, comfortable cocoa!

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.