To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

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.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it

The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future’s shape, look to the past.

It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life, ’ and in doing so I’ve yet to realize how dead I really am.

It takes one to know one, be careful what you say of others.

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.

This is a business. Like any other business.

Laws are the silent assessors of God.