Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

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 a RAGING SEA inside of me, trying to break free from ALL of me.

Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

You can't win everybody to the Lord, but you can always win somebody.

The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!

We do not view 2005 to be a clean operating year, and the positives of beating expectations are offset by guidance moving around.

Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.