We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

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.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed...

Merely being human is morally significant.

ordered me a sky from a florist

But I don't give up; I forget why not.

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.

The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

I made a few movies in Holland for a lot of TV series. I came to Los Angeles and for the last 10 years, I made a lot of feature films - all kinds of low budget action movies for the studios.

Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty.