To be a man is precisely to be responsible.

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.

No one else will ever see your dream until YOU envision it. See it and they’ll see it too.

He did not have anything on him except her thoughts, except the good times he had once shared and the bad times he so desperately wanted to forget.

I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .

He's so cute, I can't help myself.

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

You can be completely opposed to an ideological position, and I'm certainly not close to Aznar's ideas, however he was elected by the Spanish people and I demand that respect.

Okay, uh, I'm lost. I'm angry. And I'm armed.

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.